{"id":27130,"date":"2020-01-27T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27130"},"modified":"2020-01-27T19:05:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:05:18","slug":"mass-resignation-looms-in-imo-pdpwhy-party-chairman-ezekwem-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27130","title":{"rendered":"Mass Resignation Looms In Imo PDP,Why Party Chairman, Ezekwem Resigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=27131\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/charles-ezekwem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/charles-ezekwem.png 572w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/charles-ezekwem-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Except the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP adopts a veritable mechanism to check looming defection facing the party after losing the governorship seat of the state to APC, there are indications that many of the members are likely to cross over to the ruling party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">A misfortune befell PDP in Imo State after the Supreme Court sacked its candidate, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha that was earlier declared winner by the INEC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Barely, a week after the judgment, members of the party in the State started jumping ship by resigning their positions to show interest in the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Apart from some LGA and ward office holders, a national auditor Chief Regis Uwakwe had 24 hours after the Supreme Court verdict written letter of resignation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">But serious signs emerged last weekend when the state chairman, Charles Ezekwem dropped a letter for his resignation. Trumpeta learnt that Ezekwem\u2019s decisions opens another suspected channel for mass defection in the party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This newspaper learnt that there are those line up to follow the Ezekwem pattern especially appointees who served the Ihedioha government but yet to be removed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It would be recalled that Uzodinma after coming on board announced dissolution of heads of government agencies and boards Ihedioha constituted.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Some of Ihedioha\u2019s appointees who are PDP members are said to be planning to embark on mass defection into APC to retain their appointments and positions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">One of the appointees informed Trumpeta that they commission members had already perfected strategies to join APC to enable them retain their jobs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Trumpeta was informed that Ezekwem\u2019s decision to throw away the PDP chairmanship position may not be unconnected to his desire to hold on to the lead position of the Heartland FC of Owerri job.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It was expected that Ezekwem would have left the club\u2019s position immediately Uzodinma dissolved all the board headship. But in a surprise development, the resigned PDP chairman still held the position of Heartland chairman.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">To enable him retain the position, Ezekwem was said to have called its quit with the PDP and resigned as chairman of the party to save his position.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP adopts a veritable mechanism to check looming defection facing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27132,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions\/27132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}