Wike, Abe Plotting To Derail Our Congresses – Rivers APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State has alleged a collaboration between Governor Nyesom Wike and Senator Magnus Abe to frustrate its ongoing congresses in the state.

The party in a statement made available to  GreenWhiteGreen GWG alleged that as part of the plot, that a case had been prepared and kept under wraps in the office of the Chief Judge ready to be assigned to a vacation judge to handle, with the intention of issuing a restraining order.

The APC said in a statement issued in Port Harcourt by its spokesman, Chief Ogbonna Nwuke, that it has come to its knowledge that the governor is behind the attempt to scuttle its congress using Senator Magnus Abe and the State Judiciary.

The statement issued by the party read:

“Frustrated by its many futile conspiratorial attempts at stopping the Party from participating in the registration/revalidation exercise and the just concluded Ward Congresses, the enemies have set up yet another scheme.

“Under the current plan, a suit was instigated on the 5th August 2021, filed and kept under the custody of high ranking judicial officer in the State without assignment.

“We have reason to believe, based on credible information reaching us through our sources in the Judiciary that the high ranking judicial official is the Chief Judge, Justice S.C. Amadi.

“We know that the idea is for the Chief Judge to assign the matter to a hand-picked Vacation Judge who will then issue an injunction close to the time that the APC will embark on its Local Government Congresses of already scheduled for 4th September 2021.

“According to Law and the Rules of Court, the suit filed on 5th August 2021 does not qualify as a Vacation suit because it was filed at the Registry when a case of extreme urgency did not exist.

“In our view and many lawyers would agree, the matter ought to have been assigned to a Judge presiding over a regular Court.

“But leaving its assignment till after the High Court had proceeded on Vacation from 23rd August 2021, is intended to give it the colouration of urgency and then make it a vacation suit.

“By law, matters filed during the regular sittings of the Court, cannot be converted to vacation cases but in Rivers State, the Judiciary has become a notorious supermarket and bazaar shop where every and anything goes.

“The same forces that are backing Abe and his Freedom House are trying to plunge the PDP into a valley of darkness, using the ever available Rivers State Judiciary as a springboard.

“Finally, Lawyers are free to receive all kinds of briefs. The nature of their profession allows this. Somehow, the use of H. A. Bello who has been standing in for Abe’s people by those who are being used to fight Prince Uche Secondus and the PDP in Port Harcourt confirms what we have always known.

“It confirms the fact that Senator Magnus Abe and his supporters are one face of the coin that all of us have been looking at while Wike and his pack of judicial officials represent the other side of the coin.

“Some may say that what we refer to may be a mere coincidence. However, in our view, it is coincidence taken too far. There can be no better proof from our layman point of view of the level of collaboration which exists between the Abe Group and Governor Wike’s wing of the PDP.

“All said, we shall resist any move by Governor Wike and his stormtroopers either in the APC, or the Judiciary to interfere unduly in the internal affairs of our great party.”

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