Why I Filed Suit To Stop Atiku As PDP Candidate – Cosmos Ndukwe, Presidential Aspirant

A former presidential aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Cosmos Ndukwe, has opened up on the lawsuit challenging the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as presidential candidate of the party.

GWG reports that a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/782/2022, allegedly instituted by Gov Nyesom Wike and one Newgent Ekamon, had been filed against the PDP presidential candidate; Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal; and the PDP over the conduct of the presidential primary of the party which was held in Abuja on May 28 and May 29, 2022.

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Ekamon asked the court to determine eight points, including whether transferring Tambuwal’s votes to Atiku in the primary was illegal and void.

In a later report, Wike distanced himself from the case in a statement on Friday through his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, accusing Atiku’s loyalists of initiating the court case.

However, in a recent development, speaking to Vanguard, Ndukwe, a former Deputy Speaker, Abia State House of Assembly, identified himself as the one behind the suit, stating that he decided to take Atiku and PDP to court for gross violation of the party’s constitution on zoning.

Although the petition did not carry his name, Ndukwe claimed that the PDP had over the years enshrined zoning in its constitution and observed the same for equity and justice.

He expressed shock that the party, for no justifiable reasons, decided to jettison zoning in choosing its presidential flag bearer for 2023.

Ndukwe said: “That suit they are saying Wike went to court is my suit. Wike did not go to any court. It’s I that went to court because PDP violated its constitution.

“The matter is now at the Supreme Court. The court processes were served on the necessary parties on Thursday. That’s why they thought it was Wike.”

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