The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chapter in Rivers State has urged Daniel Bwala, who would serve as Atiku Abubakar’s spokesperson during the 2023 presidential race, to stop demonstrating his lack of familiarity with the opposition party.
According to The Punch, the party made the decision in response to Bwala’s remark that Nyesom Wike, the federal capital territory minister and former governor of Rivers State, was employed by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at the motor park when Atiku and others founded the PDP.
However, in response to the assertion, the state PDP stated that the minister had previously worked as a lawyer before entering politics.
On Saturday, September 16, Chief Kingsley Chuku, the former secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association’s (Port Harcourt branch) and the PDP’s legal advisor in Rivers State, made a call while speaking to journalists in Abuja.
Chuku’s comment reads in part:
“That remark is a figment of Bwala’s imagination, and I would have thought that a legal mind would do due diligence before going public with such misinformation.”
According to Chuku, the former governor was a legal practitioner before becoming the chairman of the state’s Obio/Akpor Local Government.
He further revealed that Wike was well known with the E.C Ukala & Co. law firm in Port Harcourt before he joined politics.