The Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) are trading words over Dr. Dakuku Peterside’s comments on the Supreme Court judgment affirming Governor Nyesom Wike’s election.
PDP Chairman Felix Obuah said Peterside’s claim that Wike had foreknowledge of the Supreme Court judgment affirming his election was “absolutely false and misleading”.
He berated Peterside for his comment on former Governor Peter Odili and his wife, Justice Mary Odili.
APC’s Publicity Secretary Chris Finebone said Obuah lacked the moral fibre to raise his voice against Dr. Peterside.
Obuah, who spoke yesterday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, said Sir Peter Odili and his wife, a Justice of the Supreme Court, had nothing to do with Wike’s victory.
He said: “Dr. Peter Odili and his wife, Justice Odili are worthy citizens of Rivers State, who deserve the respect and regard of Rivers people, having worked tirelessly to etch their names on the marble.
The generality of Rivers people owed the couple a duty to protect and guide their name jealously.
“The people of the state remain eternally grateful to the Supreme Court for foreclosing Dakuku’s ambition to continue to cause crisis in Rivers State. The judgment of the apex court was indeed an act of God.”
Finebone said Peterside and Rivers people would only take notice of Obuah and what he had to say after he addressed the allegations against him.
The Rivers APC chairman, through his Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media and Public Affairs, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, said Peterside never insulted the Odilis.
Ikanya said: “Rivers PDP chairman is totally wrong. Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside never insulted the Odilis. Obuah could not interpret correctly the statement by a credible doctoral degree holder and respected gentleman from Rivers State, who has proved himself as a better leader.
“Dr Peterside only reacted to the insinuation by Wike that the Odilis were the forces behind his Supreme Court victory. Obuah, who is also the helmsman of the Rivers State Waste Management Agency, should try and busy himself with how to clean the dirty environment Wike’s administration has bestowed on Rivers State as a legacy.”
The APC yesterday said the PDP was planning to scuttle the March 19 rerun, with a faceless group to be used to file a case in court.
Finebone, in a statement, said: “We have confirmed that the intention of Governor Nyesom Wike is to employ an unknown group to scuttle the elections, to further create chaos in the polity.
“The unnamed faceless group being activated by Governor Wike to embark on the exercise is expected to file a suit asking the court to declare as illegal, the March 19 elections, claiming that the date was outside the mandatory 60 days pronounced by the Courts of Appeal.
“The APC condemns this wanton act of political misbehaviour by the governor. The party believes that the ripple effects of his planned action may become his waterloo, despite the gains he may be envisaging.”
The election petitions tribunals and Courts of Appeal ordered rerun in the three Senatorial, 12 of 13 House of Representatives and 22 of 32 House of Assembly seats.
The elections, initially fixed for February 6, were shifted to March 19.
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