Protesters explain why they took coffin to PDP 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.
Source: Sunnewsonline.com