The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to as a matter of urgency throw out the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike out of the party.
The group made this call barely 48 hours after the candidate of the PDP for Delta North Senatorial District, Ned Nwoko also offered a similar advice to the leadership of the main opposition party.
Nwoko had called for the expulsion of Wike from the PDP over his constant tantrums and belaboured rebellion.
In a statement on Friday which was made available to Africa Today News, New York, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, also blamed Wike’s government for turning the war against Nwoko and his company after rendering services to the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF.
HURIWA went on to wonder why commissioner information in Rivers State will turn himself into making libelous innuendo targeted at attempting to impugn the credibility of Ned Nwoko who was at the Federal House of Representatives when Governor Wike was just one of the many boys of his then State governor in Rivers State.
HURIWA pointed out it is shocking that a matter before a competent court of law is being dragged into the political mud by a commissioner in one of the states that is a plaintiff in the pending suit.
HURIWA also said contrary to the mischievous claims by the Rivers State Government, what the NGF allegedly owned Nwoko’s firm is 68 million dollars and not 418 million dollars, noting that if at the end of the litigation, it is lawfully determined that the Ned Nwoko controlled consulting firm legitimately earned the funds and deserves to be paid under law, the governors forum don’t have any choice but to comply by the rule of law.
On the other hand, Nwoko, a card-carrying member of the PDP, recently said Wike is a ‘nuisance’ that has done a lot of ‘damage’ to the PDP and should be thrown out over his persistent call for the sacking of the party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu.