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These are not the best of times for the Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The protracted crisis which preceded the split of the APC from the party seems set to continue as the 2015 elections approach.
The Nation reports sixteen
aggrieved PDP gubernatorial aspirants and 2,100
delegate-aspirants in Rivers State have said they will shun the appeal panel
set up by the national headquarters of the party to examine the complaints
arising from last Saturday’s ward congress.
Allegations
of irregularity marred the congress in most wards.
The
aggrieved aspirants alleged that the three-man appeal panel comprises cronies
of former Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, who is also a PDP gubernatorial
aspirant.
They
alleged that the panel members – Afam Okeke (Chairman), Ferdinand Ibezim
(Secretary) and Lambert Oparah (member) – are Wike’s aides.
A
governorship aspirant, Nimi Walson-Jack, who spoke yesterday in Port Harcourt,
the state capital, on the decision of the aggrieved aspirants, described the
appeal panel as a sham.
He
said nobody would appear before it.
Walson-Jack
said: “The appeal panel will listen to appeals from those who set it up. It is
clear from the characters of those selected for the appeal panel that it has
been compromised from the onset.
“We,
the group of 16 governors acting under the coalition of governorship aspirants,
do not have any iota of confidence in the so-called appeal panel. We will have
nothing to do with it. We will not and cannot give legitimacy to a sham. Let
them regale themselves with the premeditated charade they have since designed
for the interest of an aspirant against the collective interest and electoral
fortune of our party.”
Another aspirant, Prince
Tonye Princewill, told reporters in Port Harcourt, yesterday, that the “state
chapter of the PDP does not have a properly constituted executive committee in
all the wards and local government areas”.
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