Group Commends Dumo Lulu Briggs Clearance…Seeks Mass Support For Him

The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation NDRO has commended the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Screening Appeal Committee for clearing frontline governorship candidate of the party Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs after the infamous action of the South South screening committee which refused to clear him and others known to be against the governorship aspiration of Barr. Nyesom Wike former minister of state for education.

The group in a press statement signed by its National Coordinator Comrade Nwokoma Messiah said it would have been a big disaster for the party if the plan had sailed through. The NDRO said the Peoples Democratic Party PDP would have been setting a wrong precedent by disqualifying prominent members of the party who have contributed to its development in many ways.

The group described Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs as a candidate that is in touch with the people and said it has the belief that he will emerge victorious during the governorship primaries. It said the Wike group is aware of his profile hence its desperation to see that Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs is screened out using a most flimsy and unacceptable reason.

While calling on the Party hierarchy to beware of the desperate politics of politicians within its fold, the group said they must be called to order in order not to bring acrimony and shame to the party in the long run. “It would have been most embarrassing to the Presidency and the party to have allowed the decision of the screening committee which sat in Port Harcourt to stay considering the fact that Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs has served as Chairman of two Federal Boards under the tenure of this administration from where he recently resigned as Chairman of the Board of Federal Medical Center, Owerri. Are they saying they know more than the President who appointed him as Board Chairman?” the group queried The Niger Delta Renaissance Organisation NDRO said it was wrong to say that those against Wike are in the opposition. It described the Grassroots Democratic Initiative GDI as a threat to the PDP. “The GDI rather than becoming an asset to the party has become a threat and an instrument of division in the party. This must not be allowed” the group stated.

It called on all Rivers people especially the delegates to the governorship primaries to eschew all forms of myopic politics by nominating the best candidate that can deliver the party in the next general elections and not somebody that will be rejected by the generality of Rivers people due to his glaring desperation for power.

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