Nineteen aggrieved governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State have said that President Goodluck Jonathan will lose the election in the state if the party fields Mr. Nyesom Wike as its governorship candidate.

The aspirants, who gathered under the auspices of Rivers Mainstream Coalition, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday.

Leader and spokesperson for the aspirants, Prof. Israel Owate, said it was unfortunate that the national leadership of the party had remained silent over series of protest lodged with it on the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party.

He said the aspirants had exhausted all avenues within different organs of the party like its National Working Committee, Board of Trustees and National Executive Committee in their honest quest for solutions to the lingering crisis within the PDP in Rivers State.

Owate also said that he and other aspirants were not happy that the leadership of the party, led by its Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu refused to listen to the advice given by leaders of the party from South-South, led by Chief Edwin Clark, that the governorship position be zoned to either the Riverine or the Ogoni in the state.

He called on the party and the President to either listen to the cry of the aspirants or the “PDP risks losing the two million voters from Rivers State.”

He said it would be wrong for the Governor of the State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi who is an Ikwere to also handover to another person from his tribe when leaving office in 2015.

Owate said that there were specific cases of impunity being perpetrated on the state to achieve the total exslusion of the PDP leaders and their followers who he said, insisted on zoning and respecting the established rotations formular in the state.

He said, “The naked hijack of the ward delegates election which had a four-man electoral committee that was nominated by the stinking cartel and the very shoddy screening of State House and National Assembly aspirants which left more persons screened out than made the list with no official explanation till date.”

He listed other actions he considered as acts of impunity being perpetrated by the party in the state to include what he described as the dramatic and shocking screening out of several qualified governorship aspirants and the “charade called the House of Assembky primaries which were all thuggery-enforced kangaroo primaries conducted without official delegates’ list and which returned most of the ‘favoured aspirants’ unopposed.

“All these acts of desperation are part of the grand conspiracy to give Wike the exclusive right to the party’s governorship ticket for the 2015 elections in total disregard of the party’s constitution  on zoning  and rotation of political offices.”

He said that if the situation was not attended to, the people of the state including the aggrieved members of the party at various levels, were capable of deciding their own fate.

But, he warned that such decision would not only affect the outcome of the governorship election, he added that it was also capable of having a negative effect on the presidential election.

According to him, “We are worried that our party, the PDP is about to sacrifice the interest of over five million Rivers people and put at grave risk the attainment of the usual two million votes in the presidential election because of the inordinate governorship ambition of one man.

“We shall as patriotic Rivers people do what is right for our state and we urge the PDP to do same.

“A couple of persons are bent on twisting and distorting our political tradition, we want to sound it loud and clear that Rivers people have very wide options and the nature and scope of their response cannot be determined by the Rivers Mainstream coalition  of by the PDP.”

He said the aspirants would want the president to call on the NWC of the PDP to cancel what he described as the flawed Rivers State Ward Delegates Election.

Apart from this, he said the party must open,y declare that the zone which produced Amaechi must be excluded from fielding candidates as had been done in Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Adamawa and Enugu States.

He also called for the sacking of the Deputy National Chairman of the party who is from the state, Mr. Uche Secondus, who he said had shown enough bias towards the governorship aspiration of Wike.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-will-lose-rivers-votes-aggrieved-pdp-gov-aspirants/

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Good.

PDP IS FALLING DOWN,FALLING DOWN,FALLING DOWN
PDP IS FALLING DOWN MY DEAR......

berem:
PDP IS FALLING DOWN,FALLING DOWN,FALLING DOWN
PDP IS FALLING DOWN MY DEAR......

Faster Than We Had Anticipated!

Aaaaaa! Peeeeeeeee!! Ceeeeeee!!!!

Change!

Clerverly:


Faster Than We Had Anticipated!

Aaaaaa! Peeeeeeeee!! Ceeeeeee!!!!

Change!

Let APC arise and PDP be scattered!
Let APC arise and PDP be scattered!!
Let APC arise and PDP be scattered!!!
Let APC,Let APC ARISE!!!!

Jona bye bye

So, they will arrange thugs and stop people from voting Jonathan?

If una like make una kill una self, both APC and PDP.

berem:
PDP IS FALLING DOWN,FALLING DOWN,FALLING DOWN
PDP IS FALLING DOWN MY DEAR......

BALD_HEAD

another bald head down vvv there..
Bloody losers in waiting to eat back their lumpy shiits..

Wike or no Wike, PDP is deader than a door know in Rivers.

Nyesom Wike said Gov Rotimi Amaechi bought 16 PDP Guber tickets for most of those aspirants.

Is it true?

When Nyesom Wike and Co were melting out injustice to Governor Amaechi all of u kept quite with the belief that Wike was gunning for the Senatorial seat and when the time comes u all will play the ethnic card only for u'll to wake and see that not only was Wike going for the Brick House he has also hijacked the party structure under the pretense of fighting the Governor and also procured suspicious indefinite court injuction with a parallel GDI just "incase of incasity".
The jokes on ur losers.

Ngwakwe:
Nyesom Wike said Gov Rotimi Amaechi bought 16 PDP Guber tickets for most of those aspirants.

Is it true?

Gbam

Wike seems to be too formidable for Ameachi.

If Wike is able to defeat them even with delegates from their own wards, then they have no business contesting whether those delegates are bought or not...what were they thinking? Of course candidates always want their supporters as delegates. If you are bitten to the game you should give.

....and about Jonathan, forget it that's a done deal. It's both money in the bank and cash at hand...trust me if they really said that, they don't even believe themselves

Gej till 2015

so some jweeds gathered and threw a party cause of some hopeless peoples comment.
pdp must really be a burden to you lot

Nyeson Wicked again, that incompetent man whom under his watch the Universitys, Polytechnics, COE went on strike for good one year? PDP is a mediocre party.

The only people that will threaten destruction of PDP in Rivers are the upper land people. Unfortunately PDP is most strongest in that part of state. If the Waterside people want to see Jonathan lose in rivers, they can come out and vote for Buhari and APC, so we can count their votes. . Just as Fulanis will support Buhari with 90% of their votes in 2015, so will the ijaws from rivers support Goodluck. All this nose will become drums beats of joy for Jonathan in 30 days.

By the time the main election comes PDP will be in Coma. Nyesom wike as we have known always destroys whatever political arrangement he meets. for example, when he Wike was the council chairman of Obio/ Akpor, which is made up of 3 kingdoms, Akpor, Evo and Apara instead of zoning power to Evo or Akpor Kingdom since he has taken 8yrs of Apara Kingdom where he hails from, he brought out his kitchen brother to to succeed him in the person of Timothy Nsirim, the sacked Obio/Akpor council chairman by Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Woke has always been a greedy fellow. Rivers people will regret if Wike becomes their Governor I swear

Clerverly:


Faster Than We Had Anticipated!

Aaaaaa! Peeeeeeeee!! Ceeeeeee!!!!

Change!

Edo no dey carry last.
It's Aaaaaaa! Peeeeeee! Ceeeeeeee!
Change Jonathan!

New APC slogan from APC chairman Benin branch.

tribalism and ethnicity tearing this country apart

I hope they keep their vows