Wike stressed that the PDP in Rivers was a formidable squad, fully prepared for the election, adding that the party would ensure peaceful polls.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on Monday said he would fight back after the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) allegedly ordered lawyers handling some of the party’s cases in Rivers to withdraw their legal representations.
The Rivers PDP took some political parties in the state to court over non-compliance to the regulations and laws of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the conduct of their various primaries.
Speaking at the Rivers State PDP campaign inauguration in Etche Local Government Area, Wike said that instead of the PDP national leadership supporting the suits by the PDP in Rivers, it asked lawyers handling the various matters to withdraw legal representations.
Wike said: “We have caught them. They are the ones engaged in anti-party. I told them anti-party begets anti-party. You know we carried these small parties (APC, SDP) to court for failing to do what the law says.
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“The people in Abuja that say they are national have gone to collude with them (opposition parties) to write our lawyers a letter that they should take their hands off, in order to kill the cases we filed. I have told our lawyers to withdraw from the matter. I will hit them back by tomorrow.
“Nobody hurts us without sustaining a scar. Anybody who dares to touch us in Rivers State, I will inflict many scars on him and we have started it. We are voting for our people here. Now you have told us you are doing anti-party. We will show you what anti-party is. Already, we have caught them red-handed.”
Wike, who is in a cold war with the PDP national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; urged Etche people to vote all Rivers PDP candidates only.
Wike stressed that the PDP in Rivers was a formidable squad, fully prepared for the election, adding that the party would ensure peaceful polls.
