PDP summons emergency national caucus meeting

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party  has summoned an emergency meeting of the party’s national caucus to discuss the sacking of the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, by the state election petitions tribunal.
The party said it was worried by the loss it had suffered at the tribunals in the last few days.
Apart from Wike, the Election Petitions Tribunal had also ordered the rerun of governorship election in 18 local government areas of Akwa
Ibom State.
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, is a member of the opposition party, the PDP.
            The two oil-rich states are considered important to the funding of the party.
SUNDAY PUNCH had reported exclusively that governors of the party had also scheduled an emergency meeting for Friday as a result of the two judgments.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in a statement in Abuja on Monday, alleged that the “current onslaught against the party and its candidates in the lastgeneral elections by the Federal Government, necessitated the meeting . He said the caucus meeting, holding on Thursday, will focus “on the unrelenting schemes by the APC (All Progressives Congress) and its Federal Government to use some unpatriotic elements in the judiciary to advance their plot to take over states won by the PDP, particularly Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Delta, Taraba and Abia states.”
He added that the national caucus meeting “is in furtherance of the decision of the leadership of the party to fully activate its structures in stiff resistance to the manipulation, coercion and threats of the APC-led government, and in line with the unbending determination by the party not to, in any way whatsoever, surrender any mandate freely given it to by the people at any level across the country, no matter the pressure.”