PDP Responds To Wike’s Withdrawal Of Stadium Approval For Atiku | READ DETAILS
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied being a part of an APC faction in Rivers state as alleged by the Rivers state government which warranted them to withdraw the approval given for Atiku Abubakar to use the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium for his Presidential Campaign rally.
ALL FACTS NEWSPAPER had reported that the withdrawal of approval was made known in a letter signed by the commissioner, ministry of sports in the state, Barrister Christopher Green alleging that the presidential campaign council were planning to accomodate an APC faction known for violence in the stadium.
Responding in a letter on Thursday, the Director General of the PDP PCC in Rivers state, Dr Abiye Sekibo, accused governor Nyesom Wike of working for Bola Tinubu the presidential candidate of the APC.
The letter read,
“Our attention has been drawn to your letter with reference number MOS/C/409/S49/T/17 dated January 31, 2023, and addressed to His Excellency, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council who has minuted the said letter to us for our reaction.
“You stated that credible intelligence available to the Government of Rivers State and recent developments now shows that our presidential campaign organisation is working in collaboration and cohort with a faction of the APC in River State led by Tonye Patrick Cole and that it is the intention of our campaign organisation to accommodate and share the approved facility for our campaign with the said faction of the APC.
“We wish to state as follows in reply: We completely deny your assertion as patently false and perverse and we believe that our highly respected security agencies cannot furnish you with such untrue and unfounded lies.
“That the PDP Presidential Campaign Council has nothing whatsoever to do with the APC in Rivers State.
“That it is appalling and highly preposterous for you or anyone to assume that the PDP and APC could jointly hold an event in the same venue.
“We believe that the only reason for this cancellation is Your Excellency’s notice of our massive mobilisation and total acceptance of Waziri Atiku Abubakar as the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the people of River States.
“However we are rather aware by credible information reaching us that Your Excellency has directed all Local Government Council Chairman, Special Advisers, Commissioners, Party Executives at the state, local government, and ward levels, and all other appointees of yours to work for the APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tunibu even though you have not had the courage to announce same to the people of Rivers State.
“Your general public utterances, innuendos and conduct have pointed to the fact that you are bent on frustrating and if possible, preventing the emergence of the PDP Presidential candidate, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Waziri Adamawa, as the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Finally, your involvement in the so-called G5 is the height of anti-party activity.
“It is therefore surprising that you are now accusing us of hobnobbing with the APC faction in River State.”
