PDP 'digging their graves', says suspended aspirant

Former gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah has warned the party that it is digging its own grave by suspending him.

The Chairman of Capital Oil said the party's decision to suspend him for allegedly making anti-party comments is a laughable one as he has never gained anything from the party.

While speaking on Channels Television on Thursday, September 21, 2017, Dr. Ubah said the party's leadership has failed to favourably respond to his legitimate claims of irregularities that resulted in the victory of Hon. Oseloka Obazeas the party's candidate to contest for the Anambra state gubernatorial elections in November.

He also denied that he had gotten any official query from the party before the decision to suspend him was reached and announced earlier on Thursday.

He said, "I am not doing this because of myself, I have not for once gained one single thing from PDP in my entire life and I stand to be challenged if PDP can tell anybody anything that they gave to me.

"I want Nigerians to know that also, even before I presented this case to the public, I personally presented it to the former president (Goodluck Jonathan).

"When you are presenting a clean, clear case before the panel, and after that they still uphold injustice. So, they are still digging their graves. I am not in this business to castigate anybody but I am here to seek justice.

"Impunity must stop, our electoral processes must strictly be adhered to with laid down rules according to the constitution of the party.

"Let nobody blame me today and I complained, I sent texts to every PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) member about the impunity and nobody did anything.

"Please I have not received any query and I can as well prove a point that as at yesterday (Wednesday) morning, I am still exchanging text messages with the chairman (Senator Ahmed Makarfi).

"So if I have any query, he would have even sent me to go and respond to my query."

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After losing the party's ticket to Obaze, Dr. Ubah alleged that the primaries was fraught with irregularities and that the party's leadership had refused to address his complaints about it.

At a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday, September 19, he vowed to approach the court after exhausting all the internal mechanisms to address the issues as stipulated in PDP constitution.

The party's National Caretaker Committee has referred his case to the National Disciplinary Committee for further action.