PDP reacts as Atiku's aide claims Wike was once NURTW member

The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Daniel Bwala, the spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar during the 2023 presidential election, to halt the continuous advertising of his ignorance about the opposition party.

According to The Punch, the party made the call over the comment by Bwala that when Atiku and others were founding the PDP, Nyesom Wike, the minister of the federal capital territory and former governor of Rivers State, was working at the motor park with the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

But in the state's PDP's reaction to the claim, the party said the minister had been a law practitioner before finding his way into politics.

PDP replies to Atiku's aide over comment that Wike was a former NURTW member

Chief Kingsley Chuku, the PDP legal adviser in Rivers State and ex-secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (Port Harcourt branch), called while addressing journalists in Abuja on Saturday, September 16.

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.