Rivers PDP denies tearing Dumo Lulu-Briggs’ campaign posters

Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt

The Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Felix Obuah, has denied claims by the Accord Party governorship candidate in the state, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, that his campaign posters were being destroyed by members of the PDP in the State. Chief Obuah who was reacting to Dumo Lulu-Briggs’ comments on Silverbird 93.7 FM live radio programme, View Point, described the accusation against the PDP as false, misleading and a fragment of his imagination. The Rivers PDP boss said he was not surprised at such vituperations from Dumo Lulu-Briggs, “as he was apparently frustrated, having to lose every election he had contested.” He described Dumo Lulu-Briggs as a joker, who could not win election in Rivers. “Dumo Lulu-Briggs is a serial election loser. He thinks it is the All Progressives Congress (APC) where he was incubated and midwifed, where hooliganism is a culture,”Obuah said. He affirmed that the PDP was a body of matured and civilized minds that would not tamper with the campaign posters of political opponents. “We in the PDP are civil, matured and responsible, and would not belittle ourselves by tampering with other political party candidates’ posters. “In his wild imagination, he forgets that Rivers State is not Lagos, Kaduna, Ekiti, Edo, Imo and all the APC states where billboards and posters of the PDP candidates are destroyed at will,” Chief Obuah said. The Rivers PDP Chairman also slammed Dumo Lulu-Briggs following what he said were false statistical index on employment, poverty and insecurity in the State, stressing that the Accord Party guber candidate would continue to lose elections as he allegedly knew little or nothing about his Local Government Area and the State. Governor Wike, according to Chief Obuah had done well, and Rivers people would vote massively for him and all the PDP candidates in the coming election. “How can he claim to run election when he doesn’t have campaign offices in any of the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State? Does he know that the Accord Party did not have candidates in all the elective offices for the forthcoming general elections? “How can a candidate like Dumo boast of winning election in Rivers State, with what? Politics is a game of number, and Dumo does not have the number,” Chief Obuah said. He continued: “Let Dumo Lulu-Briggs understand that the PDP is recognised in all the 4,442 Electoral Units and has offices in the 319 Wards in the State. PDP also has campaign offices in all the Chapters and local government areas in the State,” he said, alleging that Lulu-Briggs could not run election for the exalted office of Governor of Rivers State, because, according to him, he did not even know the number of Wards or Political Units in the state.