The Action Democratic Party (ADP) in Rivers State has condemned the alleged arm-twisting, financial inducement, harassment and intimidation of the party’s witnesses for the Governorship Election Tribunal by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and their agents.
This is coming as the party alleged that two witnesses in the suit instituted against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, its gubernatorial candidate, Nyesom Wike, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by the ADP said they were paid by the party to lie to the tribunal.
The party in a statement issued in Port Harcourt stated that the actions of PDP and their agents were unbecoming of a responsible political party.
The party warned that if the reports continued to come in that they would have no other alternative than to report the matter openly to the Tribunal.
The statement urged the ruling party to desist from such action as only the truth would help the Tribunal to uphold justice, which would serve the best interest of the people of the State.
ADP noted that it was appalling for counsels of INEC, Gov. Wike and the PDP to oppose producing the original press statements of INEC, which had been in the public domain since it would help unravel the truth.
The party wondered why the Tribunal did not direct substituted service in their sitting on Friday and urged it to expedite action to see that INEC was served as soon as possible as it has no time since it would conclude its case on Wednesday, July 17.
