A lawsuit that sought to have Atiku Abubakar’s designation as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) nominee for president in the general election of 2023 immediately revoked has been dismissed by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike.
According to information provided to this publication, the governor renounced the lawsuit a few hours after it was reported that the PDP Chieftain had filed a lawsuit contesting the results of the opposition party’s primary election.
As previously reported by InsightnaijaTV, Wike is said to have sued the respondents in the FHC/ABJ/CS/782/2022 lawsuit over how the May 28 and May 29, 2022, presidential primary in Abuja was handled.
He co-filed the lawsuit with PDP leader Newgent Ekamon, listing PDP as the first respondent and the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, as the second.
However, Wike stated in a conversation with Track News Nigeria that he knew nothing about the alleged lawsuit and did not know the attorneys who filed it at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Wike went on to say that the litigation was the product of troublemakers who only wanted to exploit him for cheap political points.
He stated emphatically, “I don’t know anything about the so called suit. I did not ask anyone to file any suit for me “I don’t know the lawyers”. Continuing, he said, “am I a kid to be filing a suit at this time. I had 14 days after the primary within which to have filed any suit. I didn’t do that then, is it two months after primary I will file a suit?”
He also recalled that, “Just yesterday they came up with the claim that I ordered my Chief Security Officer to pull down PDP flag in Government House. This is all false, it’s all propaganda. Some people are trying to use me to win the election. Please disregard all these lies”
