The lawmaker representing Ideato Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Ikenga Ugochinyere has declared null and void the ward congresses conducted last Saturday, in Rivers State.
Ugochinyere, made the declaration in a chat with journalists in Port Harcourt, on Sunday.
According to him, there is a subsisting order of a Rivers State High Court stopping the congress, noting that what was held at the weekend was a kindred meeting.
He said, “There is nothing to talk about here. If a group of people, out of desperation, decided to hold kindred meeting, that should not bother anybody. And I advise Nyesom Wike, stop this. The joke is becoming too much.
“There is a subsisting order of a Rivers State High Court few days to this issue of congress that that exercise can no longer hold, but he decided in his desperation, alongside with his supporters, to gather themselves in their hideouts, and conducted what I call a kindred meeting in the name of ward congresses.
“So, what Wike group had yesterday (Saturday) in the name of ward congress is a kindred meeting. That is what we call in Igbo, ‘meeting Umunna’, and nothing more; it ends there, they were talking to themselves; and it is a nullity”.
“Let me tell you why it is a nullity, and it is very simple. As long as there was a subsisting court order saying it should not hold, and they went ahead to hold the congress, the court in question will void whatever is the outcome of that exercise because it was conducted in violation of the court order”.
“As it is today, there is no working PDP in Rivers State; because we have a group of people who are in what we call: APC-PDP, invading our party, and trying to take control of the party.
