Manager Expresses Fear Over Fate Of PDP, Says I Can’t Feign Ignorance, The Party Is Drowning, Gradually Dying

Senator James Manager, representing Delta South Senatorial district in the red chamber, has expressed fear over the fate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying he can’t feign ignorance of the fact that the party, is drowning and dying gradually.

www.bigpenngr.com reports that Manager spoke on Saturday in reaction to media reports making the round that he had joined the fray of those who are dragging the party in court over post party’s primaries matters.

In a post made on his verified Facebook page while denying ever initiating a lawsuit against one of party’s governorship aspirants, Manager said he cannot be part of moves to destroy the party he was a pioneer chairman and founder.

Recalls a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had nullified the candidacy of Oborevwori following a suit filed by the second runner up at the primary, David Edevbie, a former commissioner of finance in the state. The development is currently causing anxiety and wrangling in the party between the political camp of former governor James Ibori and that of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa who is the vice presidential candidate of the party.

He, however admitted that all is not well with the party, as he said, some element within and outside who had reaped from the party are head bent to destroy it.

He wrote; ‘I want to react to a trending story on a section of the media that I initiated a court case against one of the PDP governorship aspirants in Delta State. The purported story sponsored by well-known political merchants is a cesspool of lies and a journalism junkyard from where stories are fabricated against leading political lights. it is another desperate attempt to drag my humble self into the mud-sliding and regrettable- avoidable political quagmire we all find ourselves in Delta PDP today.

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‘I have spent almost 30 years in this business of politics and these stupendous insinuations being sponsored and peddled in the media by these political jobbers are not my modus operandi. My style on matters like this over the years are different. The story is fake and nothing could be farther from the truth.

‘As the pioneer State Chairman of the party and by extension the father of PDP in Delta State, I would not do anything to further exacerbate the problems for the party and the future of Deltans because Delta is PDP and PDP is Delta. I’m greatly disturbed by the recent happenings at the party today. I would not feign ignorance as the party is drowning and dying gradually. If nobody is seeing it, I am seeing it and I am also feeling it greatly. I would have initiated certain preliminary actions pro bono but because I’m directly involved as a contender, I’m constrained. I want to be extremely careful and cautious with suggestions and interventions.

‘Going forward, we have to be prayerful to God Almighty and belief in His Supremacy. May God not allow those who are inside and outside PDP who have all used its platform to acquire the big names they have today to destroy it.

‘May that day never come, AMEN!, he prayed.