Nigeria, Nov. 7 -- On 8 December, 2014, two parallel governorship primaries took place in Enugu. One was held at Filbon Hotel, where the late Senator Ayogu Eze emerged as the winner, polling 526 votes. At Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, the PDP national electoral panel conducted another primary, which produced Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who received 933 votes. The central issue was not necessarily who enjoyed greater popularity among the party's members or the electorate. It was the legitimacy of the delegate list used to conduct the exercise.

Eze maintained that the stadium primary that produced Ugwuanyi relied on an improper delegate list and was therefore illegitimate. He argued that the delegates who participated in his own primary had emerged f...