The Imo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to continue to hold peaceful protests to push for the review and reverse of the supreme court ruling which sacked former governor Emeka Ihedioha and ordered the swearing in of Senator Hope Uzodinma.
This is in contrast to the warning of Governor Uzodinma who, last week, demanded a stop to ‘incessant protest’ in the state which he claimed were aimed at destabilizing the peace in the state.
Imo PDP also vowed to reclaimed the seats of the Assembly members who defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
These were contained in a statement released by the party’s publicity secretary, Damian Oparah, after the PDP Stakeholders meeting, held at the Party Secretariat in Owerri on Sunday to review the State of affairs of the Party.
According the statement, they “resolved that the Party shall continue to use every legal means available to the Party to make sure that the unjust Judgement given against the Party, Governor Emeka Ihedioha and his Deputy Hon. Gerald Irona by the Supreme Court of Nigeria is reviewed and reversed.
“That the purported decamping of few members of Imo State House of Assembly elected under the Platform of our great Party is of no consequences to the popularity of PDP and her teaming supporters in Imo State. That the Party in Imo State shall in conjunction with the National organs of the party employ all legal options to recover their seats in the House of Assembly, as the National Secretariate had already declared their seats vacant.
“The Party shall keep on demostrating/ Protesting within the Constitutional right of her members , to peacefully and publicly show our support to Governor Emeka Ihedioha, his Deputy, Hon. Gerald Irona and our unacceptable tendencies towards the Supreme Court Judgement that ousted Governor Emeka Ihedioha and his Deputy, Hon. Gerald Irona.
“The Stakeholders finally urged all PDP members to remain faithful in the Party and leave all those who have left the party as there are better future in PDP for them than elsewhere, since what the Party is facing now in Imo State is a temporal set back.
