The Rivers Progressives
Alliance says the position of the wife of the President Mrs. Aisha Buhari on
the impunity that reigns in the party has proved them right on their position
on the outcome of the kangaroo primaries that took place in the state on the 30th
of September.
The group in a press
statement signed by its Director of Publicity Eddie Tekenah said the sham that
took place in the primaries where the names of delegates were changed overnight
to favour the candidate of the Minister of Transport Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi
which led to the call for postponement and subsequent withdrawal of Barr. Dumo
Lulu Briggs from the primaries if allowed to stand will lead to the failure of
the party in the general elections next year. “we complained of the way
impunity has been instituted in the party and nobody cared to listen to us and
today the wife of the President who is not a small figure within the party has
reiterated our stance. We believe it is high time Mr. President call the party
leadership to order so they do the right thing otherwise the party will
suffer”. The statement said.
“How can the party explain
the treatment meted to a party stalwart like Barr. Dumo Lulu Briggs who has
sacrificed so much for the party and who remains the most popular and
acceptable candidate of the party that has all it takes to wrest power from the
PDP led state government? We stand to be corrected that the Minister is working
to favour the victory of the state governor in the coming general election to
continue with the Ikwerre agenda which aims to lord it over the other ethnic
groups especially the riverine areas of the state”.
The statement called on
the people of the riverine area of the state not to allow themselves to be
deceived because the celebrated love which the leader of the party in the state
has been bandying is false and does not exist. “If the party leader loves the
people of the riverine area of the state he would have done the right thing
which would have led to the most popular and acceptable candidate from the
riverine Kalabari axis emerging as standard bearer of the party. How can one
explain the fact that people that are not as acceptable to the people of the
state like Dumo Lulu Briggs will beat him in a free and fair primaries. It
shows there is something fishy which is bigger than what we are seeing. Thank
God for the wife of the President who has raised the alarm so it doesn’t look
like we are the only ones making statement as regards the wickedness going on
in the party which aims to favour a single individual in the party” the
statement concluded.
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