Following the verdict by the supreme court rejecting Governor Wike’s appeal, the Rivers State chapter of the People`s Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday appealed to its members in the state to remain calm and law abiding.
The Newswriter recalls that the Supreme Court had on Tuesday struck out Wike’s appeal challenging the relocation of the Election Petition Tribunal from Port Harcourt to Abuja.
Chief Felix Obuah, the state Chairman of the party, made the call in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Jerry Needam, in Port Harcourt.
Obuah noted that in spite of the verdict against Wike and the state legislators, there was no cause for alarm.
The state Chairman was quoted in the statement as saying that all members of the party and Rivers people should remain resolute because Wike, the legislators and PDP will be victorious at the end of the day.
“But, we can now see light at the end of the tunnel, and are therefore, not perturbed. We are sure of victory,” the statement stated.
According to the statement, Wike’s administration was determined to put smiles on the faces of the people.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has described all the judgements against him as a “Judicial gang-up”.
Governor Wike said this in reaction to the Supreme Court judgment that struck-out his appeal against the territorial jurisdiction of the Rivers State elections petition tribunal.
The Governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Opunabo Inko-Tariah in a statement obtained by newsmen accused the former Governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi of masterminding the resolutions of the judges.
Inko-Tariah wondered why Amaechi had suddenly become the beneficiary of the judgments despite what he did to the Judiciary during his last years as Governor of the state.
He said, “To say the list, we are surprised at the judgement of the Supreme Court. As at that time the tribunal were set, the Federal High Court and the Appeal court were sitting in Port Harcourt.
“How can former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who rubbished the judiciary be a beneficiary of the Judiciary.
“The plan is to subvert the will of the people who freely gave their mandate to Governor Nyesom Wike.
“What has happened can be best described as a judicial gang-up or judicial terrorism against Governor Wike.”
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