By Dapo Akinrefon, Steve Oko & Umar Yusuf

Amid confusion over the identity of the person who took the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, to court, a former presidential aspirant on the party’s platform, Dr Cosmos Ndukwe, has said he is behind the suit and not the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.


His clarification came following Wike’s denial that he sued his party’s presidential flagbearer.

The governor, who is currently romancing All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftains, inviting them to commission projects in Rivers instead of his PDP colleagues, said he neither went to court nor asked anyone to file a suit on his behalf.

He also said reports of the suit emanated from Atiku’s people.

Wike made the comments in Port Harcourt, Friday, during the official commissioning of some projects.

“I want to state categorically that if I wanted to go to court, I will go to court. I have kept quiet and busy delivering dividends of democracy. If I wanted to, I would have gone to court within two weeks after the primary. Because that is a pre-election matter. It is the candidate’s group doing all these. And they’re not doing him any favour. But I wish them good luck,” he said.

But it was widely reported that a suit had been instituted against Atiku, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, and the PDP over the conduct of the party’s presidential primary.

Atiku and Wike have been estranged since the former emerged as the PDP presidential candidate and the latter the first runners-up and Atiku, instead of picking Wike as his running mate in the 2023 election, chose Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State.

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In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/782/2022, Wike and a chieftain of the PDP, Newgent Ekamon, were listed as plaintiffs. In the originating summons, the PDP was said to be listed as the first respondent while the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was the second respondent. Tambuwal and Atiku were listed as the third and fourth respondents respectively.

Ekamon asked the court to determine eight points including whether the transfer of Tambuwal’s votes to Atiku in the primary was illegal and void.

Meanwhile, Ndukwe, a former Deputy Speaker, Abia State House of Assembly, whose name didn’t appear in the suit, in an exclusive chat with Sunday Vanguard, claimed ownership of the suit.

He said he decided to take Atiku and PDP to court for gross violation of the party’s constitution on zoning.

The erstwhile presidential aspirant argued that PDP had over the years enshrined zoning in its constitution and observed the same for equity and justice but expressed shock that the party for no justifiable reasons decided to jettison zoning in choosing its presidential flag bearer for 2023.

The former Chief of Staff to Abia State governor said he had before the primaries gone to court to challenge the refusal of the party to zone its presidential ticket to the South.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/08/wike-and-pdp-crisis-mystery-man-who-sued-atiku-surfaces/

No problem, Nigerians are not interested in knowing the culprit...
They should keep the headache it within their party

Atiku is continuation of Buhari agenda, they had agreement after 2019 elections that he should calm down that he will hand over to him

So PDP do not know the plaintiff from the court summons or they just want to be mischievous

Hmm! I said it and will keep saying it, Wike is a huge force to reckon with in PDP, if they allow this guy leave, the end is indeed near for PDP.
Back to years when PDP was in turmoil and disarray, those years when the likes of Saraki, Atiku and the rest were junketting around different political parties, when PDP was so broke to the extent that they could not pay rent at their Abuja head office, when they became so broke that they could not pay even staff salaries at the party office. It was this Wike of a man that came to their rescue with his personal and Rivers money! And you're telling me this man does not deserve to be the party presidential candidate? Worst of it, he could have been offered Vice President slot.

Wow

Unknown plaintiff

jkpbestseries:
Atiku is continuation of Buhari agenda, they had agreement after 2019 elections that he should calm down that he will hand over to him

If e no be South East or South South and good Wike is out of the race make North continue.

Ok

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jkpbestseries:
Atiku is continuation of Buhari agenda, they had agreement after 2019 elections that he should calm down that he will hand over to him

Both Atiku and Tinubu are the same. Real change starts with Peter Obi

Ok

jkpbestseries:
Atiku is continuation of Buhari agenda, they had agreement after 2019 elections that he should calm down that he will hand over to him

Facts majority no know

Wike has activated "Awinchy winchy " policitics. This kind of politics is usually played when you want to fool 2 people from different political parties at the same time.

Another Arthur Nzeribe.

I don't know why people from that side always do this type of thing

Reinaldo:


Both Atiku and Tinubu are the same. Real change starts with Peter Obi

what is so special about peter obi ?

Yes and he wants to Christianize Nigeria

Mtch

PDP = crisis
APC = crisis
LP. = instability

AA = peace and tranquillity!!!
Know this and end insurgency


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/rogers-contradicts-self-on-kudirats-murder/amp/

Really...

jkpbestseries:
Atiku is continuation of Buhari agenda, they had agreement after 2019 elections that he should calm down that he will hand over to him

Wow!!!!
Never knew you're a witness to such agreement until now you're revealing it to us.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺

Okoros even said it’s afonja people that went to file the suit in court because “Afonjas like causing confusion, afonja like backstabbing, Afonjas are green snakes”...
But now that we know that it’s an Igbo man all these while, I wonder what they will say

So Iyorcha Ayu is telling us that it was APC that sponsored Cosmos to file the suit against Atiku...

Useless and Shameless septuagenarians hiding behind politics to be telling lies so shamelessly.

Ggt

But why can't you put your name, why are these ibo people so mischievous... Na so ugo go change him name to Yusuf de cla I'm no more supporting Tinubu...
If una use una identify for once person go die?

Another Arthur Nzeribe