Peterside Didn’t Attack Wike, PDP, APC Clarifies

The Greater Together Cam
paign Organisation, (GTCO), has debunked claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, had hands in the alleged attack on its governorship candidate last Saturday.
The campaign organisation not only described the allegation against  Peterside as “tissue of lies and libellous provocation”, but equally accused PDP of seeking an infamous route to escape its summons before nemesis.
In a reaction through its Director of Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, the GTCO, pooh poohed PDP for driving its penchant for blood too far, alleging that PDP was struggling to evade ongoing police inquiries into its attack on APC governorship team in Okrika and other areas in the state, by blackmailing the APC and its governorship candidate.
“This tissue of lies and libellous provocation is wicked and callous, and should be disregarded. PDP couldn’t be visiting gross violence on Rivers State and her people only to turn back and pass the bulk. We state categorically that Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, who has run issues-based campaign, has no reason to direct his supporters or participate directly in any sort of pre, during and post-election violence, much more to organise armed attack. The PDP, with no agenda for Rivers people, has resorted to mudslinging, but as responsible as he is, Dr. Peterside would not be caught in their trap.
“The APC governorship candidate remains what Rivers people know him to be – a gentleman with no record of violence; a decent man who respects the sanctity of life; a Christian who believes that God makes kings; and  a governorship candidate with the change message,” the GTCO said.
The statement added that , “PDP must have envisaged that ongoing police investigation into armed attacks, assassination of APC supporters and members, and other politically-motivated violence in Rivers State,  would turn in a damaging indictment on it, and so, as a diversionary tactic to misdirect the police, had stage-managed the said Bakana attack. PDP in Rivers State is never tired of mischief and can fabricate any to achieve its aim. We are the least surprised at this new tale”.
While doubting there was ever an attack on the PDP governorship campaign team, and demanding concrete evidence, the Dr. Peterside campaign organisation berated PDP for throwing up a governorship candidate with no program or development agenda for Rivers State.
“We blame PDP for presenting such a liability for an exalted office as that of governor. If  Wike was the best PDP could present to Rivers people to elect as their governor, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), should reconsider its status as a political party”, the statement said.
While denying PDP’s claims, GTCO reiterated that Peterside has no link or association, remotely or otherwise, with the rumoured attack on  Wike, “who by the way, knows that he is more of a liability than a governorship candidate”.

The GTCO added that,  ”PDP and the  liability it said is a governorship candidate are no doubt jealous of the sweeping support  Peterside is enjoying across the length and breadth of Rivers State. They are afraid of the huge support market associations, the physically challenged, professional bodies, students’ groups, youths, new voters, socio-cultural organizations, and even PDP chieftains, are giving Peterside. But like the drowning fellow who’d clutch to any straw for life-support, Wike and the Rivers PDP want to drag a man whose time has come into their pit of infamy. Dr. Peterside is more decent than that”.