Rivers PDP denies favouring Wike in ward congress

The Rivers State Appeal Panel set up to look into allegations raised by some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the just concluded ward congresses has pooh-poohed the allegations that the process was set to favour the chances of the immediate past minister of state for education, Nyesom Wike.

The three-member panel said the insinuations by the petitioners that the panel was doing everything to pave the way for Wike impugned on the integrity of members of the panel.

About 16 PDP governorship aspirants in the state had expressed their anger over the membership of both the electoral body that oversaw the congresses and the appeal panel set up to address the grievances of members of the party.

In his briefing with the media in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday, the Chairman of the PDP Appeal Panel, Afam Okeke, said that they would vouch for the integrity of the members of the panel.

Okeke explained that it was the right of any contestant to complain about the process of an election, even as he described the allegation of bias against the panel as unfortunate.

Source: dailyindependent