The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is under intense pressure from aggrieved party members who are seeking cancellation of the last Saturday’s ward congresses across the states which were considered faulty and in the interest of a few party leaders, especially governors, our can authoritatively reveal.

To register their protests, Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke, Owan Enoh and Bassey Ewa and the state party chairman, John Okon, were sighted at the party secretariat in Abuja during the week to complain to the National Working Committee about the conduct of the ward congresses in their state.

Some aggrieved politicians who also lost out in Enugu State have reportedly mounted pressure on the party leadership to cancel the results and conduct a fresh congress.

Already, a court order has been served on the party against cancellation of the Enugu State ward congress.

The current pressure, it was gathered, is coming from some state governments and some members of the National Assembly, particularly those who lost out in the congress.

“They have tried to impress it on the party leadership and the NWC that only a cancellation would be acceptable.

“For the past three days, the leadership have come under intense lobby that a fresh congress should be conducted by cancelling results already submitted by the various electoral panels. In fact, the lobby has been taken to the Presidency.

“But the NWC has told the lobbyists that they stand by the results returned by their electoral panels. Two petitions came from Cross River State but the Appeal Panel dismissed them. The petitioners were told to accept the report of the electoral panel,” a competent source told Daily Independent at the party’s secretariat.

On Wednesday, 14 aspirants from Rivers State addressed a joint press conference in Abuja denouncing the alleged rigging of the ward congress in favour of former Education Minister, Nyesom Wike.

Also, the home  state of President Goodluck Jonathan, Bayelsa, is set to witness another round of political crisis as the state Governor Seriake Dickson’s resolve to stop all National Assembly members as well as state lawmakers from seeking re-election in 2015 is already creating tension in the state.

Stakeholders of the PDP allegedly supported by Governor Dickson had four weeks ago, purportedly adopted a zoning formula across the state for elective offices in 2015.

Curiously, the zoning of the offices saw to the shutting out of all current National Assembly members from the state.

The federal lawmakers are Senators Emmanuel Paulker (Bayelsa Central), Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa West) and Clever Ikisikpo (Bayelsa East).

Those in the House of Representatives are Foingha Jephthah (Nembe/Brass), Henry Ofongo (Southern Ijaw), Warman Ogoriba (Yenegoa/Kolokuma-Opokuma), Dr. Stella Dorgu (Sagbama/Ekeremor) and Nadu Karibo (Ogbia).

Apart from Dorgu, all the affected lawmakers had conducted parallel congresses to protest the handling of the PDP ward congresses by the governor.

Their supporters have equally vowed to make the state ungovernable if the national leadership of the PDP and President Jonathan did not intervene on time in the brewing crisis within the party in the state.

This development is coming on the heels of moves by Governor Dickson to stop all, except two, of the state House of Assembly members from making a return in 2015.

The two with assurance to return as state lawmakers are the Majority Leader, Peter Akpe (Sagbama 2) and Daniel Igali (Southern Ijaw 3).

By implication, the Speaker, Benson Konbowei, an ally of the governor who was the arrow head of the controversial zoning against the return of Senator Paulker, has also been edged out in the unfolding political drama.

But both the state government and the leadership of the PDP in the state have debunked the reports as non-existent.

That, notwithstanding, a PDP chieftain who craved anonymity and who led a delegation of PDP stakeholders to meet with the President on the brewing crisis in Bayelsa, told our correspondent that the ruling party was not just being threatened but that the peace of the entire state was at risk owing to the development.

Our source, a former member of the National Assembly, said: “The brewing crisis within the PDP in Bayelsa State is not just a party affair, if care is not taken, it could lead to other political upheavals with the capacity of threatening the peace of the state.

“I can tell you that the reason some of us came to see the President today was to brief him adequately on the matter because the impression being created by the governor that all is well is erroneous, it can lead to something else,” he said.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that state lawmakers led by the Speaker, Kombowei Benson, have pulled out of an earlier agreement with Governor Seriake Dickson-led Restoration Caucus and demanded that they be returned automatically in 2015.

The anger of the State Assembly members is stemmed from the move by the governor to install some of his aides and those termed Restoration Boys as State Assembly members in 2015, it was learnt.

At the last count, many of the governor’s aides including the former state Commissioner for Education, Salo Adiekumo, and Local Government, Meitama Obodo, have led crowd of aides to pick nomination forms.

The camp of the Speaker after series of meetings attended by trusted state assembly members have  started to doubt the sincerity of the governor over the rush for the collection of nomination forms by his aides.

Already, a pro-democracy group, the Niger Delta Youth Forum, in a letter to the governor has accused the party leadership and the Restoration Boys of alleged interference in the nomination process of the PDP across the eight local government areas in the state.

 The letter signed by its National Co-ordinator, Mike Olomu, called on Governor Dickson to stop “the deliberate attempts by some state party leaders to hijack the elective processes of the PDP and hide