The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the governor of the state, Siminalayi Fubara to obey the court order restricting the conduct of the October 5 local government elections in the state.
The PDP insisted that nobody should participate in or allow the conduct of any local government elections that deviated from the court’s judgment.
The party warned the governor of the consequences of disobeying the court order.
The state chairman of the party, Chukwuemeka Aaron, gave the warning via a statement on Friday.
He stressed that participating in or conducting elections contrary to the court’s judgment would be unlawful.
Aaron urged the citizens to disregard any announcements calling for local government elections on October 5, citing a Federal High Court judgment that halted the poll.
Aaron restated the party’s commitment to upholding the rule of law, adding that the RSIEC and the State government could not choose which court orders to obey or ignore.
He said, “The PDP, having reviewed all the cases relating to the local government elections, concludes as follows: we cannot support or promote lawlessness, or impunity in any forms whatsoever even though we are the ruling party in Rivers state.
“The proper court judgment must be obeyed as we cannot choose which order of the court to obey and not to obey.
“We, therefore call on the Rivers State Governor who incidentally is a member of our great party the PDP to obey and comply wholly and strictly with the judgment of the Federal High Court in line with our character and ethics of our party, the PDP and suspend the planned October 5 Local Government elections in Rivers State.”