The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
has told Governor Hope Uzodinma that he has no power to stop them from
protesting against the injustices against them.
The party also insisted that it would continue to protest
over the outcome of the Supreme Court judgment which removed Emeka Ihedioha as
the governor of the state and declared Uzodinma as the rightful winner of the
March 9, 2019 governorship election in the state.
Governor Hope Uzodinma had last week said he would no longer
tolerate any form of protest capable of inciting the people of the state.
But, in a statement issued after the party’s stakeholders
meeting in Owerri, the party said it would also, “continue to employ every
legal means available to the party to make sure that the unjust judgement given
against the party, Governor Emeka Ihedioha and his Deputy Hon. Gerald
Irona by the Supreme Court of Nigeria is reviewed and reversed.”
The statement signed by the party’s publicity secretary, Damian
Oparah, added, “the party shall keep on demostrating/protesting within the Constitutional right of her members , to peacefully and
publicly show our support to Governor Emeka Ihedioha, his Deputy, Hon. Gerald Irona and our unacceptable tendencies towards the
Supreme Court Judgement that ousted Governor Emeka Ihedioha and his Deputy,
Hon. Gerald Irona.”
On the recent decamping of some lawmakers and chieftains of
the party to other parties, the party said, their action was of no
consequences to the popularity of PDP
and her teaming supporters in the state.
The party said it would however employ all legal options to
recover the seats of all the elected members who left the party.
The statement said: “The Party in Imo State shall in
conjunction with the National organs of the
party employ all legal options to recover their seats in the House
of Assembly, as the National Secretariate had already declared their seats
vacant.
“The Stakeholders finally urged all PDP members to remain
faithful in the Party and leave all those who have left the party as there
are better future in PDP for them than
elsewhere, since what the Party is facing
now in Imo State is a temporal
set back.”
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