Protesters explain why they took coffin to PDP National secretariat yesterday

 

Some aggrieved PDP as­pirants, who were disqualified from participating in last week­end River state assemblies

 pri­maries yesterday stormed the PDP national secre­tariat in Abuja with a coffin in protest

An aspirant, Davis Saloka, said they were at the PDP secretariat to kick against the “open robbery per­petrated 

against them by the party.” He told newsmen that about 107 members of the party paid to obtain the nomination 

forms, but that only 32 whom he claimed were loyalists of Nyesom Wike, were given what he called “dubious

 clearance,” while the rest of them were disqualified.

“We all bought forms to participate in the PDP primary election but what we saw was out of the ordinary.

 We attended the screening exercise but we did not know our fate until Friday night when we saw a list pasted, 

in­dicating that only 32 persons were cleared to participate in the election.

“We discovered that those nominated from Wike’s camp were given clearance which gave them automatic ticket 

while the rest of us were screened out. The most annoying thing was that we were not told the reason we were

 disqualified, and it is more curious to note that all we saw was a list that was neither signed nor was on a PDP

 letter head, but just contained the names of Wike’s boys as the only ones cleared to participate in the party

 pri­mary.

“On Saturday, they just wrote the names of these peo­ple and said they were the win­ners of the PDP party primary 

where elections were not held. It is injustice, we won’t ac­cept it,” he said.