By Ismail Auwal
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied filling suit that seeks the removal of the removal of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the upcoming general election.
Wike denied ever knowing the lawyers who filed the suit nor commissioned them in the first has threatened he has threatened legal action against the publication of the suit as he has nothing to do with it, THISDAY reports.
The governor described the suit as the handiwork of mischief makers who merely want to use him to score cheap political goals.
“I don’t know the lawyers”, Wike said: “Am I a kid to be filing a suit at this time. I had 14 days within which to file any suit. I didn’t, then is it two months after I will file a suit?”
He also recalled that: “Just a few days ago, they came up with the claim that I ordered my chief security officer to pull down PDP’s flag in my office.
“This is all propaganda. Some people are trying to use me to win election.”
The media was Friday awashed with reports that Wike and a chieftain of the PDP, Mr Newgent Ekamon, had dragged the PDP to court seeking the removal of Atiku as the candidate of the PDP in next year’s presidential poll.
According to thesuit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/782/2022, the plaintiffs were said to have hinged their claims on the grounds that the PDP primary conferred undue advantage on Atiku which aided his emergence as the candidate of the PDP in the May 28 and 29 primary.
