Rivers Crisis: Wike Held An ‘Owanbe’ Party Out Of Desperation And Called It State Congress – Ugochinyere

A member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato North South Federal Constituency, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, has said that no Congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) was held in Rivers State.

He claimed that the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike held a party with his friends, under the guise of a party congress.

Naija News reports that the PDP state congresses, took place some weeks back, and was marred by complaints from several states, including Rivers, Benue, Katsina, and Kogi.

In Rivers, the congress was held despite an existing court order preventing the process.

The development has led to a dispute between the National Working Committee (NWC) that authorised the congress and the PDP Governors Forum, who are insisting that Governor Siminalayi Fubara remains the party leader in the state.

Speaking on the development via a statement  on Saturday, Ugochinyere described the supposed Congress held by the Wike faction as laughable and a jamboree.

According to the PDP chieftain, no PDP Congress was held in Rivers state, rather “Nyesom Wike out of desperation to look good before his dwindling followers who are losing confidence in him held an owambe party and called it state Congress.”

The lawmaker recalling the interim order stopping PDP from holding congresses in the state, said the party Wike conducted for him and his friends was an exercise in futility.

The statement reads, “Take it from me, there is no PDP state Congress yet in Rivers state.

“Wike out of desperation to look good before his dwindling followers who are losing confidence in him held an owambe party and called it state Congress.

“Recall that in July, a State High Court, holding in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and presided over by Justice Charles Wali had issued an interim order stopping PDP from holding congresses in the state.

“The court decision was clear and the Congress was stopped from holding and so if people out of desperation gather to hold a family or kindred meeting from their hideout under the guise of Congress, you can only but pity and laugh at their political frolicking caused by joblessness and desperate quest for power.

“Defying the court orders, some members of PDP hobnobbing with the APC reportedly made an attempt to pass off some family gatherings of their faction as PDP congress.

“The purported Congress is a nullity and an exercise in futility as there is still an existing valid order against any conduct of Congress in Rivers and in view of that, the purported Congress will be set aside as you can’t put something on nothing.”