ANTI WIKE PROTESTERS HAS EXPLAINED WHY THEY STORMED PDP SECTERIAT WITH A COFFIN.

A mild drama occurred at the national secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday when Rivers State Assembly aspirants disqualified from participating in last week­end’s primaries stormed the party’s national secre­tariat in Abuja with a coffin in protest.
The aspirants, who came with several other mean-looking party members, blocked the entrance of Wadata Plaza – an action which forced the PDP Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and other members of the party’s National Working Committee to flee.
Some of them who spoke with newsmen accused the PDP NWC and the state chapter of the party of conniving with former Minister of State for Education and governorship aspirant, Nyesom Wike to frustrate their aspirations.
A State Assembly aspirant, Davis Saloka, from Eleme constituency, said they were at the PDP secretariat to kick against the “open robbery perpetrated against them by the party.”
Saloka told newsmen that no fewer than 107 members of the party paid to obtain the expression of interest and nomination forms, but noted that only 32, whom he claimed were loyalists of Nyesom, were given what he called “dubious clearance,” while the rest of them were disqualified.
“We all bought forms to participate in the PDP primary election but what we saw was out of the ordinary.
“We attended the screening exercise but we did not know our fate until Friday night when we saw a list pasted, in­dicating that only 32 persons were cleared to participate in the election.
“We discovered that those nominated from Wike’s camp were given clearance which gave them automatic ticket while the rest of us were screened out.
“The most annoying thing was that we were not told the reason we were disqualified, and it is more curious to note that all we saw was a list that was neither signed nor was on a PDP letter head, but just contained the names of Wike’s boys as the only ones cleared to participate in the party pri­mary.
“On Saturday, they just wrote the names of these peo­ple and said they were the win­ners of the PDP party primary where elections were not held.
“It is injustice, we won’t ac­cept it,” he said.
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