The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called
an emergency meeting of the party’s national
caucus to discuss what it calls “the current
onslaught against the party and its candidates in
the last general elections, by the APC-led
Federal Government”.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa
Metuh, in a statement on Monday said the
caucus, which will meet on Thursday will focus
on the “unrelenting schemes” by the APC and its
Federal Government to use some “unpatriotic
elements” in the judiciary to advance their plot
to take over states won by the PDP, particularly
Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Delta, Taraba and Abia
states.
The governorship election tribunals have so far
delivered judgments on elections in Rivers, Akwa
Ibom and Delta state.
While Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers was
sacked by the tribunal which sat in Abuja for
security reasons, the Akwa Ibom tribunal ordered
rerun elections in 18 local governments of the
state.
It however, allowed the PDP governor, Udom
Emmanuel to remain in office.
The Delta State tribunal on Monday validated the
election of PDP’s Ifeanyi Okowa as the governor
of Delta state.
In his statement, Mr. Metuh said the national
caucus meeting “is in furtherance of the decision
of the leadership of the party to fully activate its
structures in stiff resistance to the
manipulations, coercions and threats of the APC-
led government, and in line with the unbending
determination by the party not to, in any way
whatsoever surrender any mandate freely given it
to by the people at any level across the country,
no matter the pressure”.