The campaign organisation of Senator Emmanuel Paulker, Renewal 2015, has accused immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan and the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party of shutting out Paulker from the Bayelsa State governorship race.
Paulker, who was a close associate 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.
Speaking with newsmen at the Renewal 2015 office, the Director-General of the campaign organisation, Dr. Ayakeme Whisky, said the disqualification of Paulker was deliberate “choreographed plots” by those who believed they could play God in the lives of men.
According to him, 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.
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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