Some aggrieved PDP assirants, who were disqualified from participating in last weekend River state assemblies primaries yesterday stormed the PDP national secreariat in Abuja with a coffin in protest An aspirant, Davis Saloka, said they were at the PDP secretariat to kick against the "open robbery pernetrated against them by the party." He told newsmen that no fewer than 107 members of the party paid to obtain the expression of interest and nomination forms, but noted that only 32, whom he claimed were loyalists of Nyesom, were given what he called "dubious clearance," while the rest of them were disqualified. "We all bought forms to participate in the PDP primary election but what we saw was out of the ordinary. We attended the screening exercise but we did not know our fate until Friday night when we saw a list pasted, indicating that only 32 persons were cleared to participate in the election. "We discovered that those nominated from Wike's camp were given clearance which gave them automatic ticket while the rest of us were screened out. The most annoying thing was that we were not told the reason we were disqualified, and it is more curious to note that all we saw was a list that was neither signed nor was on a PDP letter head, but just contained the names of Wike's boys as the only ones cleared to participate in the party pri璵ary. "On Saturday, they just wrote the names of these peo璸le and said they were the win璶ers of the PDP party primary where elections were not held. It is injustice, we won't ac璫ept it," he said. Source:
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