The leadership and members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State on Thursday said they were suspending the part’s scheduled Senatorial Primary election for Anambra Central Senatorial Zone.

The party on Thursday said the exercise will remain suspended until the party’s National Publicity Secretary and leader of the party in the state, Mr. Olisah Metuh, who is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is released.

Speaking during a massive protest by party members from the 21 Local Government Areas of the state at the Party Secretariat in Awka, the State Legal Adviser, Mr. Afam Akonanya and the State Assistant Secretary General, Mr. Chidi Oji, said that the continued detention of their leader is against the principle of the rule of law.

They maintained that while PDP as an opposition party is not against the war on corruption, the party should not be clamped down upon.

They further called on the EFCC to release Mr Metuh immediately and unconditionally too.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on Tuesday arrested the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Olisa Metuh.

A statement issued by the Special Assistant to Mr Metuh stated that he was arrested at his home by four officials of the EFCC on Tuesday morning at about 10:00AM and was taken away in an unmarked white Hiace bus.

The statement added that the officials told the opposition party spokesman that he was being invited on a friendly note to answer questions at the anti-graft agency’s headquarters in Abuja.