PDP summons emergency meeting over Rivers verdict

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The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has summoned an emergency meeting of the party’s national caucus.

The meeting, billed to hold on Thursday, is to discuss what the party described as “the current onslaught against the party and its candidates in the last general elections, by the APC-led Federal Government”. A statement on Monday by the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the meeting will focus on 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 the statement, the 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.

This, the statement added, was in line with the unbending determination by the PDP 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.