By Ochogwu Sunday Following the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential primary election held May 29, 2022, the Rivers State Gove...
By Ochogwu Sunday
Following the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP presidential
primary election held May 29, 2022, the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has
sued the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the party and the Sokoto
State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal.
DAILY POST recalls that during the primary election held in
Abuja, the Sokoto Governor, while addressing delegates, asked them to vote for
him but later declared that he stepped down for the former Vice President,
Atiku.
The election had Atiku poll 371 votes as winner, while Wike
and Bukola Saraki garnered 237 and 70 votes, respectively.
Wike and his loyalists have been in a face-off with Atiku’s
camp since the conclusion of the PDP’s primary election.
Following the prolonged crisis rocking the party, Wike and a
PDP chieftain, Newgent Ekamon have now dragged Atiku, Tambuwal and the PDP to
court in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/782/2022.
In the originating summons, the PDP is listed as the first
respondent, while the Independent National Electoral Commission is the 2nd
respondent. Tambuwal and Atiku are listed as the 3rd and 4th respondents,
respectively.
Among other issues listed, Wike and Ekamon asked the court
to order the INEC to reject or remove Atiku from “its list of candidates in the
2023 presidential election.”
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