Felix Obuah: PDP chairman in Rivers

The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said the Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa did not order the reinstatement of the sacked All Progressives Congress, APC, Council Chairmen and Councillors as claimed by the APC.

The Chairman of the PDP in the State, Bro Felix Obuah, said the falsehood being peddled by Mr Dakuku Peterside and the All Progressives Congress that the Industrial ordered the reinstatement of the sacked Chairmen and Councillors was “false, mischievous, misleading and intended to cause anarchy in the State.”

The PDP Chairman accused the APC of deliberately misinterpreting the real position of the Court on the matter.

The Party explains that the APC and its chairmen could only seek redress at the Court of Appeal, and not an Industrial Court which has concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.

“The PDP is again concerned about the palpable tension such misinterpretation of a purported Industrial Court ruling has generated in the State, which the Party believes was avoidable and uncalled for, as the State was beginning to properly stabilize, having some of those contentious issues laid to rest by the Court and other institutions of law”, Obuah said.

Obuah called on the 22 Local Government Caretaker Committees not to panic or be swayed, but to remain focused in the discharge of their legitimate responsibilities at the various Council areas in the State.