A showdown is imminent between Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over the recent resurfacing of Professor Dora Akunyili as a ministerial nominee from the state.

Specifically, the Anambra PDP caucus in the National Assembly is incensed by the realization that Governor Obi may have been instrumental to the “eleventh hour” emergence of Akunyili as ministerial nominee from Anambra State. Even though from Anambra State, the slot which Mrs. Josephine Anenih has filled is the South-east’s.

The caucus is billed to meet with Acting President Goodluck Jonathan any moment, to register their displeasure with Akunyili’s re-nomination. Should Akunyili remain on the list, the caucus would use every means at its disposal to stop the Senate from clearing her, a federal legislator assured Pointblanknews.com.

The caucus, Pointblanknews.com gathered, is giving serious thought to Senator Joy Emordi emerging as the preferred Anambra nominee. Emordi was sacked from the Thursday morning by a five-man panel of judges in the Court of Appeal, Enugu, who maintained that Alphonsus Igbeke of All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), and not Emordi, is the rightful winner of the 2007 Anambra North senatorial election.

Until her ouster, glamorous Emordi was a very influential ranking senator and chairman of its committee on education. She has a strong political following in Anambra PDP.

It is the rule of the thumb in the Nigerian Senate for ministerial nominees to, first, get the endorsement of all the senators from their home states before seeking clearance on the floor of the House. “We shall make it clear that we don’t want Dora (Akunyili), and it is nothing personal. She has never identified with Anambra PDP. We would want to know if she is an APGA nominee, because that is the party she has offered her most to,” said the lawmaker.
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“Her anti-party began from 2007, when Andy Uba contested the election. Her body language and utterances during and after the elections clearly gave her away as the black sheep of PDP. She put in everything she had to frustrate Andy simply because she is related to Peter Obi by marriage.

“When the Supreme Court threw out Andy (Uba), Dora couldn’t conceal her excitement. She and (Prof.) Chukwuma Soludo were all over Peter (Obi), accompanying him to all the thanksgiving services he held, all under the pretext of being Roman Catholics,” the source alleged.

“When Soludo got the PDP ticket,” continued the lawmaker, “one would have assumed that Dora would have been pleased. No. she immediately began to plot Soludo’s downfall. Even though some other persons sabotaged Soludo, Dora, beyond doubt, contributed the most to the sabotage. Why do you think PDP supporters attacked her at every charade of a party meeting she tried to convene?” demanded the legislator.

He averred that “Dora has never been a predictable character, which became clear to all in her much advertised volte-face over the issue of President Yar’Adua’s health,” adding, “this is the same woman who wined and dined with persons she now conveniently prefers to address as ‘cabal.’”

He narrated: “Unsuspecting Nigerians applauded her as a woman of courage. For us, nothing could be more horrifying. The same Dora, who worked over time to be the alter ego of Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, now denouncing everything that Turai stood for,” stressing, “That is the height of perfidy.”

He added that his colleagues were guided by the belief that it would be immoral to clear Akunyili for another ministerial appointment, only for her to dump Jonathan “if as much as a storm begins to brew in a teacup.

“Anambra is not lacking in men and women of substance, who are better educated and more adept in managing situations. We are not a fair-weather people, people who choose and dump friends at will. We want men and women of honour, whose words shall, under every circumstance, be their bonds. That is why we are united in rejecting Prof. Dora Akunyili,” he affirmed.

The lawmaker disclosed that Emordi’s ouster by the courts came as a mixed blessing, in that they were going to mount a campaign that would see her substituting Akunyili as the authentic and acceptable ministerial nominee from Anambra State.

THESE SO CALL SENATORS ARE TRYING TO COMPENSATE A HAWK THAT HAS ILLEGALLY REAP FROM WHERE SHE NEVER SOW INSTEAD OF PUNISHING HER,INFACT IT IS A PITTY,I HEREBY DENOUNCE NIGERIA

They don't have any point at all, is getting Nigeria going all about belonging to a party or the right candidate that will perform.

They should rather get themselves busy.