Rivers State PDP Campaign Council on Friday absolved Gov Nyesom Nyesom from the accusations by Dumo Lulu-Briggs, the gubernatorial candidate of the Accord party that he(Wike) was behind the Thursday’s Federal High Court Ruling which disqualified him(Briggs) from the March 9 Guber election.
Recall that a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt disqualified Briggs on the basis that he did not participate in the primary.
The Court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to substitute Briggs name with the authentic Guber candidate, Precious Baridoo.
But Briggs in a statement on Thursday night fingered Wike for the court ruling, describing the courts as Wike’s supermarket.
However, the state chapter of the PDP distanced Wike from Briggs claims, stating, however, that Wike has no hand in the disqualification of Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs as the Accord Party Governorship Candidate in Rivers State.
This was contained in a press statement issued by the Director of Information and Communication of the Rivers State PDP Campaign Council, Emma Okah, in reaction to the claims by Chief Lulu-Briggs that Gov Wike sponsored the processes that eased him out of the contest by the court.
According to the statement: “Chief Lulu-Briggs is a lawyer and a seasoned politician who ought to know that the steps he took to annex the governorship slot of the Accord Party when there was an existing candidate were wrong and against the letters and spirit of the Electoral Act and extant laws. He, therefore, has himself to blame and not Gov Wike.
Okah who commended the courage of Chief Lulu-Briggs in dumping the APC at a time when impunity reigned supreme in Rivers State Chapter said “it is wrong to condemn impunity in one party and go to another one to perpetuate it”
“It is, therefore, wrong for Chief Lulu-Briggs to assume that Gov Wike sponsored the oppressed candidate in court simply because the victim of injustice is not a man of stout means”
The statement further urged Chief Lulu-Briggs to leave Gov Wike out of his political travails and allow God’s time and preferences to prevail.
