Group cautions PDP scribe over comments on Rivers tribunal verdict

The Governance Watch Initiative (GWI), has cautioned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spokesman, Olisa Metuh, over his statements concerning the Rivers election tribunal verdict, calling on PDP supporters to rise up.

According to Daily Post, National Coordinator, Rotimi Ogunwuyi, in a statement said, “We have also noticed a series of unwarranted attacks against our nation’s judiciary by Chief Metuh and his party, an attack that was carried to a disturbing level in Sunday’s statement."

The group also said “We recall that when Chibuike Amaechi, then of the PDP, was pronounced as the Governor of Rivers State by the Supreme Court in October 2007, even when he did not contest that year’s governorship election since his name had been substituted by his party, the PDP did not think the judiciary was being used by the PDP-led Federal Government of the time."

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Adding that “We also recall that under the present dispensation, all the APC National Assembly candidates in Rivers, who took their cases to the election petition tribunal, lost and heavens did not fall.

“We note that Chief Metuh has always been quick to say that his party will provide a credible opposition, and wonder what is credible in the kind of subversive statements that have been emanating from the PDP spokesman in recent times."