The leader of the party who attended the meeting confided in DAILY POST that Amaechi took the action because those removed were accused of working to install Senator Magnus Abe as
governorship candidate of the party for the 2019 general elections.
Notable chieftains of the party who attended the exercise at the stadium included a former Deputy Governor of Abia, Mr Chris Akomas, Sen. Nkechi Nwogu and
former governorship candidate of the party, Chief Nyerere Anyim.
Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalong, made this known yesterday in Abuja when he paid a condolence visit to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, at the national secretariat in Abuja on the death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the
late governorship candidate of the party in Kogi State election.
People Democratic Party governors in the South - South geo - political zone have assured the Edo
State governorship candidate of the party, Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu, of their support in Saturday's election.
It was learnt that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, is also pitching tent with the faction in what members described as a renewed effort to wrest the structure from the 2015
governorship candidate of the party, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor.
The National Committee Chairman for the Primary Election of the Action Democratic Party, (ADP) in Ekiti, Mr Umaru Yakubu has declared Mr Segun Adewale as
the governorship candidate of the party for the July 14 election in the state.
Scores of former political office holders and Peoples Democratic Party chieftains on Friday condemned the burning of the party flags at the secretariat by supporters of Senator Iyiola Omisore and said that the party would win the September 22 governorship election in the state without the former
governorship candidate of the party.