Lauretta Onochie, special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, on social media, claims that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, January 21 hired the people who participated in the party’s protest.
The presidential aide disclosed that the southeast chapter of the opposition party paid the protesters N2,000 and “nearly killed them”.
Onochie in a Twitter post on Tuesday, January 21, shared a video of some PDP’s protesters who were involved in a road accident at the Transcorp Hilton junction in Abuja.
She also spoke about Enyinnaya Abaribe, the Senate minority leader, who was part of the protest. She said: “A lawmaker was there, leading a protest against the law,”
For years, @OfficialPDPNig killed Nigerians. Sometimes deliberately or through negligence.
Here, the remnant of PDP in the South East, hired some people for ₦2000 and nearly killed them.
A Lawmaker was there, leading a protest against the Law.
Who did this to the South East? pic.twitter.com/nrGdzvFEuI
— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) January 21, 2020
It was reported that leaders and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party protested against Supreme Court judgement removing Emeka Ihedioha as Imo state governor.
Recall that the PDP’s national chairman, Uche Secondus, on Friday, during the party’s emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting said the aim of the protest was to impress it on Nigerians that injustice has been done to the party.
Some of the PDP leaders at the protest include the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus; the 2019 Vice-President candidate, Peter Obi; and the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe.
Earlier, The Herald reported that National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party rejected the verdict of the Supreme Court on the Imo gubernatorial election.
PDP also described the Supreme Court under Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Mohammed as “heavily compromised” and lacking in “credibility”.
This was the outcome of the emergency meeting called by the PDP NWC to deliberate on the apex court’s judgement sacking the party’s candidate in the March 9, 2019 election, Emeka Ihedioha, and declaring the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Sen. Hope Uzodinma the winner of the election.