The
campaign organisation of Senator Emmanuel Paulker, Renewal 2015, has
slammed former President Goodluck Jonathan and the leaders of the
Peoples Democratic Party for shutting out Paulker from the Bayelsa State
governorship race.
Paulker, a close ally of Jonathan, and a
former Chairman of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Chief
Ebikitin Diongoli, were disqualified at the party’s zonal screening
committee in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, last Saturday.
At the screening, only the incumbent
governor, Seriake Dickson, was successfully cleared, leaving him as the
sole contender for the governorship election coming up on December 5.
Addressing journalists at the Renewal
2015 office, the Director-General of the campaign organisation, Dr.
Ayakeme Whisky, said the disqualification of Paulker was the culmination
of some well “choreographed plots” by those who believed they could
play God in the lives of men.
He
said the campaign team was alarmed at the disqualification of Paulker
on spurious allegations, one of which was that the senator did not
attach his acceptable tax documents.
Whisky said the allegation was
incredulous and laughable, wondering that a sitting senator, who
ordinarily should have nothing barring him, should be whimsically
disqualified by the same party that allowed him to represent it in a
senatorial election barely six months ago.
He said Paulker had been in the senate for more than eight years and had been paying his taxes.
Whisky, who is also a member of an
association within the party, the PDP Unity Group, said the campaign
team was flustered by the seeming inability of the PDP to learn from its
mistakes.
He noted that the woeful defeat of the
PDP during the last presidential election was due to its total
disrespect for internal democracy.
He regretted that while the main
opposition party in the state, the All Progressives Congress, had thrown
its door open to 19 aspirants, the PDP had closed the doors against all
other aspirants, leaving Dickson as the sole candidate.
Whisky said, “We make bold to say that posterity will vindicate the just and history will punish the wicked.”
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