About 13 People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Rivers State have been disqualified by the party’s South-South screening committee.‎
The committee carried out the exercise for three days at its zonal headquarters along Circular Road in Port Harcourt.
Those said to have been disqualified were Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack, Nimi Walson Jack, Tonye Princewill, Dumo Lulu-Briggs, Prof. Dom Baridom and Major Lasncelot Ayanya.
Others were Gabriel Pidomsom, Dennis Ojuka, Tamunosisi Gogo-jaja, Sampson Ngerebara and Mrs. Abietedogho Bob-Hart, among others.
It was gathered that the governorship aspirants were disqualified on the allegation that they are not members of the PDP in state.
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All the disqualified aspirants, who attended the three-day screening, are largely from the Kalabari and Ogoni axis of the state.‎
Those cleared by the screening committee were Pawariso Samuel Horsfall, Captain Nwankwo Sunday, Nyesom Wike, Bernard Mikko, Senator Lee Meaba and Ibinabo Michael-West. Horsfall, Sunday and Mikko were members of the group of 16 aspirants who urged the party to adopt the principle of zoning as enshrined in Section 7 3 (c) of the PDP constitution.
It was learnt that the disqualified aspirants have expressed shock over the development and have submitted petitions to the national headquarters of the party.
Reacting to the disqualification of the 13 aspirants, the spokesman for Rivers Mainstream Coalition, Prof. Israel Owate, condemned the disqualification of the aspirants, insisting that it was strange that the screening committee could describe such prominent members of the PDP as not being recognised by the party.‎
Prof. Owate expressed dismay that the party could turn around to disqualify such leading members after the party had cleared them to purchase the expression of intent forms and nominations worth millions of naira.
Princewill, on his own, described his disqualification as a “sheer madness.”
He said: “I am not a PDP member after I raised hundreds of millions for the party, donated a multi-million media centre to the national headquarters and participated in all affairs of the party I was invited to? I am not a member but you collected millions for a PDP form. If this decision is true, this is a sad day for our internal democracy.”‎

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