The campaign organisation of Senator Emmanuel
Paulker, Renewal 2015, has slammed former President Goodluck Jonathan and the
leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party for shutting out Paulker from the
Bayelsa State governorship race.
Paulker, a close ally of Jonathan, and a former
Chairman of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Chief Ebikitin Diongoli,
were disqualified at the party’s zonal screening committee in Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, last Saturday.
At the screening, only the incumbent governor,
Seriake Dickson, was successfully cleared, leaving him as the sole contender
for the governorship election coming up on December 5.
Addressing journalists at the Renewal 2015
office, the Director-General of the campaign organisation, Dr. Ayakeme Whisky,
said the disqualification of Paulker was the culmination of some well
“choreographed plots” by those who believed they could play God in the lives of
men.
He said the campaign team was alarmed at the
disqualification of Paulker on spurious allegations, one of which was that the
senator did not attach his acceptable tax documents.
Whisky said the allegation was incredulous and
laughable, wondering that a sitting senator, who ordinarily should have nothing
barring him, should be whimsically disqualified by the same party that allowed
him to represent it in a senatorial election barely six months ago.
He said Paulker had been in the senate for more
than eight years and had been paying his taxes.
Whisky, who is also a member of an association
within the party, the PDP Unity Group, said the campaign team was flustered by
the seeming inability of the PDP to learn from its mistakes.
He noted that the woeful defeat of the PDP during
the last presidential election was due to its total disrespect for internal
democracy.
He regretted that while the main opposition party
in the state, the All Progressives Congress, had thrown its door open to 19
aspirants, the PDP had closed the doors against all other aspirants, leaving
Dickson as the sole candidate.
Whisky said, “We make bold to say that posterity
will vindicate the just and history will punish the wicked.”
Source:dailypost
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