By Ayorinde Oluokun.
Nigeria opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Monday summoned an emergency meeting of its national caucus in reaction to the judgments of governorship election tribunal polls in Akwa Ibom and Rivers States delivered last week.
The tribunals had ordered a rerun election in Rivers State and a partial rerun of the gubernatorial election in Akwa Ibom State.
The caucus is expected to discuss what the party described as an onslaught against it and its candidates in the last general elections, by the APC-led Federal Government.
In a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the opposition PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the caucus, which will meet on Thursday will focus on what he described as “the unrelenting schemes by the APC and its Federal Government to use some unpatriotic elements in the judiciary to advance their plot to take over states won by the PDP, particularly Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Delta, Taraba and Abia states.”
According to Metuh, the national caucus meeting is in furtherance of the decision of the leadership of the party to “fully activate its structures in stiff resistance to the manipulations, coercions and threats of the APC-led government, and in line with the unbending determination by the party not to, in any way whatsoever, surrender any mandate freely given it to by the people at any level across the country, no matter the pressure.”