Initial Disqualification: Lulu-Briggs Blames Desperate PDP Politicians

One of the gubernatorial
aspirants on the platform of the People Democratic Party in Rivers State, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs says desperate politicians who are afraid of clear contest are responsible for his initial disqualification in the governorship race in the state.
Lulu-Brigges stated this last Saturday while addressing his teeming supporters who came to receive him at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa shortly after  returning from Abuja where the initial disqualification was quashed.
The Rivers PDP guber hopeful wondered how he could be disqualified as a guber aspirant in the state after his service at a federal parastatal board as a card-carry member of the PDP.
He however accused the screening panel in Port Harcourt of being biased in its judgment, pointing out that the malicious plan was the handiwork of some desperate politicians in the party.
While blaming also those he described as local champions who are bent on having others out of the way for them to succeed, he pledged to form an all-inclusive government if elected into power. Despite his initial disqualification and the subsequent clearance, Lulu-Briggs said he would not be distracted in vision and plan to govern the state and take it to the next level of development.
He said though the march to Rivers Brick House come 2015, would not be an easy one, he called on his supporters to remain calm and prayerful in the face of unwholesome intimidations and political gerrymandering in the state. It would be recalled that Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs alongside 15 other PDP guber aspirants, were disqualified by the party’s screening committee last week in Port Harcourt.
The Tide learnt that the decision of the PDP appeal panel to clear them and allow all the gubernatorial aspirants go into the primary was intended to give fair opening to those aspiring to political offices as well as avoid the damager of unfair treatment of politicians which is capable of rocking the boat of PDP as it sails in the political waters of 2015.