PDP – The Peoples Democratic Party, National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has emerged the PDP governorship candidate for the November 11 Imo State Governorship Election.

This followed the PDP’s primary held on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at it’s state secretariat along the Okigwe Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

Anyanwu is expected to challenge the re-election of Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Recall that off-cycle governorship elections are expected to hold in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo states on November 11, 2023.

According to the State Organising Secretary of the PDP, Lawrence Biado, the seven-man electoral panel constituted by the National Working Committee headed by Kenneth Okon is present to monitor the primary in Imo.

Meanwhile, a former Governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, was absent at the event.

Recall that Ihedioha had, a few weeks ago, pulled out from the PDP governorship race.

Mr Ihedioha in the letter said he turned 58 on 24 March and had the cause to reflect on so many things, including the state of PDP.

The former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives said that having been a member since the formation of the PDP in 1998, he aligned himself with the request made by the PDP Imo chapter to the National Working Committee (NWC) for a consensus choice of the candidate regarding the 2023 governorship primary.

In January 2020, the Supreme Court sacked Ihedioha as the governor of Imo State after barely seven months in office.