Says it’s the handiwork of mischief makers
BY MAYOWA SAMUEL
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has distanced himself from a purported suit said to have been filed by him seeking the removal of Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Wike’s denial on Friday comes after some media outfits had also reported that he had ordered the removal of PDP flags in the Rivers State government house, which also turned out to be false.
Aside denying knowledge of anything whatsoever about the purported suit, the governor stated that he didn’t even know the lawyers who filed the suit in the first instance, saying, “I don’t know anything about the so called suit. I did not ask anyone to file any suit for me.”
The media was on Friday morning awash with reports that Governor Wike and one chieftain of the PDP, Newgent Ekamon, had dragged the PDP to court seeking the removal of Atiku as Candidate of the PDP in next year’s presidential polls.
According to the purported suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/782/2022, the plaintiffs were said to have hinged their claims on the grounds that the PDP primary conferred undue advantage on Atiku which aided his emergence as candidate of the PDP in the May 28 and 29 primary.
Reacting to the publication, Wike flatly denied the suit said to have been filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, describing the suit as the handiwork of mischief makers who merely want to use him to score cheap political goals.
He stated, “I don’t know the lawyers. Am I a kid to be filing a suit at this time? I had 14 days after the primary within which to have filed any suit. I didn’t do that then, is it two months after primary I will file a suit?
He also recalled that, “just yesterday they came up with the claim that I ordered my Chief Security Officer to pull down PDP flag in Government House. This is all false, it’s all propaganda. Some people are trying to use me to win the election. Please disregard all these lies.”
