The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has summoned
an emergency meeting of the party’s national caucus to discuss the
sacking of the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, by the state election petitions tribunal.
The party said it was worried by the loss it had suffered at the tribunals in the last few days
Apart from Wike, the Election Petitions Tribunal had also ordered the rerun of governorship election in 18 local government areas of Akwa Ibom State.
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, is a member of the opposition party, the PDP.
The two oil-rich states are considered important to the funding of the party.
ObinitonREPORTS had reported exclusively that governors of the
party had also scheduled an emergency meeting for Friday as a result of
the two judgments.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in a
statement in Abuja on Monday, alleged that the “current onslaught
against the party and its candidates in the last
general elections by the Federal Government, necessitated the meeting .
general elections by the Federal Government, necessitated the meeting .
He said the caucus meeting, holding on Thursday, will focus “on the
unrelenting schemes by the APC (All Progressives Congress) and its
Federal Government to use some unpatriotic elements in the judiciary to
advance their plot to take over states won by the PDP, particularly
Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Delta, Taraba and Abia states.”
He added that the national caucus meeting “is in furtherance of the
decision of the leadership of the party to fully activate its structures
in stiff resistance to the manipulation, coercion and threats of the
APC-led government, and in line with the unbending determination by the
party not to, in any way whatsoever, surrender any mandate freely given
it to by the people at any level across the country, no matter the
pressure.”
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