Wike sues Atiku, Tambuwal, requests acknowledgment as an applicant

Wike, Atiku and Tambuwal

Lead representative Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has sued the official applicant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal; and the PDP over the direct of the official essential of the party that was held in Abuja on May 28 and May 29, 2022.

In the suit stamped FHC/ABJ/CS/782/2022, Wike and a PDP tribal leader, Newgent Ekamon, are recorded as the offended parties. In the beginning summons, the PDP is recorded as the principal respondent while the Independent National Electoral Commission is the second respondent. Tambuwal and Atiku are recorded as the third and fourth respondents individually.

During the PDP official essential, when wannabes were approached to address delegates, Tambuwal had requested that they vote in favor of him just to return minutes after the fact to request that they vote in favor of Atiku.

At the essential, Atiku surveyed 371 votes while Wike and Bukola Saraki gathered 237 and 70 votes separately. After the show, the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, portrayed Tambuwal as the "legend of the show."

In the beginning summons, Wike and his co-candidate requested that the court decide on eight issues including whether the implied move of Tambuwal's votes to Atiku by the PDP was unlawful and void.

The offended parties requested that the court decide whether Tambuwal lost his case to votes the second he ventured down for Atiku.

He requested that the court decide if Tambuwal "having ventured down during the primaries should lose his votes."

Wike and Ekamon contended that should these not be entirely set in stone in support of themselves, the court ought to concede nine reliefs including a statement that the implied move of Tambuwal's votes to Atiku be proclaimed invalid and void.

The offended parties are likewise looking for a statement that the PDP behaved inappropriately by doling out the Sokoto lead representative's votes to Atiku at the essential.

They implored the court to "drop the exchange of votes and a comparing request limiting the third respondent (Tambuwal's) withdrawal in the essential was finished subsequent to casting a ballot had started."

The candidates likewise supplicated the court to announce that the PDP and Atiku exploited Tambuwal's withdrawal when they permitted the Sokoto lead representative to convince agents to decide in favor of the previous Vice-President in the essential.

Wike and Ekamon requested that the court request INEC to reject or eliminate Atiku from "its rundown of competitors in the 2023 official political race."

They are additionally looking for a request directing the PDP to relate the votes of the essential that was hung on May 28 and May 29.

Finally, the candidates are looking for a request for the court "coordinating the first respondent (PDP) to proclaim the second candidate (Wike), an official competitor in the May 28 and May 29 essential as the champ of the previously mentioned essential with a relating request coordinating the first respondent (PDP) to advance his name as the contender to challenge the official political decision in 2023."

In a supporting sworn statement he removed to, Ekamon noticed that he was an individual from the PDP and confirmed the way that Wike won the official political decision.

He kept up with that Tambuwal pulled out from the challenge subsequent to casting a ballot had initiated and coordinated that his votes be doled out to Atiku.

"The third respondent (Tambuwal) talked two times before venturing down from the challenge, convinced every one of his representatives who planned to decide in favor of him to decide in favor of the fourth respondent (Atiku).

"The first (PDP) and fourth (Atiku) respondents who likewise needed the votes frantically concurred with the third (Tambuwal) and allocated third (Tambuwal) respodnent's votes to the fourth (Atiku) respondent and expanded his votes to win the second candidate (Wike).

"The second candidate (Wike) won the primaries if the votes of the third respondent (Tambuwal) had not been moved or allocated to the fourth respondent (Atiku).

The PUNCH discovered that the court processes had been served on the PDP at its Wadata Plaza central command situated at Wuse Zone 5 while a duplicate had likewise been conveyed to Atiku's Campaign office in Maitama and the Sokoto State Government's Liaison Office by the court bailiff.

Wike has been in constant conflict with Atiku and Tambuwal since his loss in the official essential.

He had thrashed the PDP for permitting Tambuwal to solicit votes in favor of Atiku after he had proactively been permitted to talk before at the show.

"To leave the show, I might have done that and I told them… I have never perceived how individuals can abuse strategies and rules. Someone had spoken. It is just by then he was talking that he could say I have removed. You don't get back to him," Wike had said.

After the essential, Atiku had been encouraged to pick Wike as his running mate. Nonetheless, the previous Vice-President chose to designate Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate, a move that further extended the emergency in the party.

Wike and his faction of lead representatives have supposedly requested the renunciation of the PDP public executive as a condition for them to lobby for Atiku. They contended that all top situations in the party are being involved by northerners and Ayu, who is from the North-Central should leave as an admission toward the South.

Nonetheless, Ayu has kept up with that he would just leave after Atiku arises the champ of the Presidential political race one year from now.

At the point when reached on the phone, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, said he knew nothing about the case and accordingly couldn't remark on it.

"I'm simply finding out about this case from you. I have not seen the cycle and in this manner can't remark on it," he said.

Likewise, Atiku's Spokesman, Paul Ibe, said his chief had not yet been served and consequently couldn't remark with regards to this issue.

"We don't know about the case and have not been served. At the point when we are served, we will answer properly. Nonetheless, the reaction will be finished legitimately and not through the media," Ibe said.

Work to arrive at Wike on his cell phone demonstrated unsuccessful, as it showed that the calls were being sent, even as he presently couldn't seem to answer an instant message shipped off his portable as of the hour of recording this report on Thursday night.

Likewise, Mr. Kelvin Ebiri, Special Assistant on Media to the Governor couldn't be reached as his cell phone was not interfacing, even as he presently couldn't seem to answer a message and WhatsApp message shipped off him as of the hour of documenting this report.