Leader of the G-60 lawmakers in the House of Representatives, Hon Ikenga Ugochinyere, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not working in Rivers State.
Ugochinyere, who disclosed this yesterday while speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt, said what they have in the party in the state are politicians who belong to both the PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC), who are making efforts to hijack the leadership of the party in the state.
He said: “As it is today, there is no working PDP in Rivers State because we have a group of people who are in what we call APC-PDP, invading our party, and trying to take control of it.”
The lawmaker, who represents Ideato-South/Ideato-North Federal Constituency in Imo State, stated that the ward congresses allegedly conducted last Saturday by the PDP in Rivers State are of no effect, null and void.
“There is nothing to talk about here. If a group of people, out of desperation, decided to hold a kindred meeting, that should not bother anybody. I advise Nyesom Wike to stop this. The joke is becoming too much.
“There is a subsisting order of a Rivers State High Court few days to this issue of congress that exercise can no longer hold, but he decided in his desperation, alongside with his supporters, to gather themselves in their hideouts, and conducted what I call a kindred meeting in the name of ward congresses.
“So, what the Wike group had on Saturday in the name of ward congress is a kindred meeting. That is what we call it in Igbo, ‘meeting Umunna’, and nothing more; it ends there, they were talking to themselves, and it is a nullity.
“Let me tell you why it is a nullity, and it is very simple. As long as there was a subsisting court order saying it should not hold, and they went ahead to hold the congress, the court in question will void whatever the outcome of that exercise is because it was conducted in violation of the court order,” he said.
