Automatic Ticket for PDP Governors Should be Condemned-West





- Says purported resolution of PDP National Caucus precludes interested party members
By Pat PA Okon                                              .                                                 

Prominent gladiator in the governorship race in Rivers State, Barr. Soalabo West has condemned the purported resolution of the National Caucus of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, that all sitting governors and members of the National Assembly on the platform of the party should be returned unopposed, diametrically precludes interested party members from vying for those positions.
                                                                     
These and more were contained in his press statement below:                 
WEST CONDEMNS AUTOMATIC TICKET FOR PDP GOVERNORS

The purported resolution of the National Caucus of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, that all sitting governors and members of the National Assembly on the platform of the party should be returned unopposed, diametrically precludes interested party members from vying for those positions.

Such blanket endorsement of sitting governors and members of the National Assembly for whatever reason is patently undemocratic and completely shuts the door to internal party democracy.

On my part, some members of the Riverine Communities in Rivers State resident in Abuja, who had volunteered to pay for both my expression of intent and nomination forms tried without success for two days to purchase the interest and nomination forms at the PDP national secretariat, at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

Officers at the National Secretariat bluntly refused to accept the bank draft that was issued in the name of the party, ostensibly, to prevent me from exercising my fundamental right to freely participate in the democratic processes leading to the 2019 general elections.

Our representatives were later informed by another officer at a late hour on Friday to effect a Bank Transfer through a POS terminal payable to the PDP which was unusual, a worrisome deviation from what had been the practice and tradition of obtaining both interest and nomination forms through the payment of Bank Draft.

I wish to state categorically that the PDP in shutting the door to democratic participation in the PDP governorship primary elections, has wilfully opened the door for I and my supporters to seek for other avenues to fully exercise our rights to participate, unhindered, in the processes leading to the 2019 general elections.

From the foregoing, it is clear that there is a grand plan to bar any candidate from the Riverine Communities of the state in participating in the governorship primary of the PDP in furtherance of the 2019 gubernatorial election. This is unfair.

In the meantime our options are open as we believe in the Almighty God who gives power to continue to guide our steps. For we are indeed fighting a just and equitable cause.

Barrister Soalabo West 09/09/2018

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