The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged the state governor, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, to obey a court order that restricted the conduct of local government elections in the state.
This, they said, was to warn the governor of the consequences of disobeying the Federal High Court judgment outlawing the conduct of October 5 local government elections.
The PDP said that nobody should participate in or allow the conduct of any local government elections that is not in line with the court’s judgment.
The state chairman of the party, Chukwuemeka Aaron, said…“The PDP, having reviewed all the cases relating to the local government elections, concludes as follows: we cannot support or promote lawlessness or impunity in any form whatsoever even though we are the ruling party in Rivers state.
“The proper court judgment must be obeyed as we cannot choose which order of the court to obey and not to obey.
“We, therefore call on the Rivers State Governor who incidentally is a member of our great party the PDP to obey and comply wholly and strictly with the judgment of the Federal High Court in line with our character and ethics of our party, the PDP and suspend the planned October 5 Local Government elections in Rivers State,” he said.