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The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the March 18 elections in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Abe has withdrawn his petition at the Election Petition Tribunal challenging the victory of Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Abe disclosed this Sunday while he was addressing party leaders at his campaign office in Port Harcourt
He said: “I know it has not been easy and at a time like this, to go with bare hands against dollars, naira and euros, to go with bare hands, against guns and knives. And all you have is your faith and conviction that this is the right thing to do.
“A lot of our people went through so much trauma, so much hell, but it is to the glory of God that we are alive today.”
Abe denied claims of de- marketing the state with his comments for purpose of seeking appointment from the President elect, saying that actions like” harassing and arresting lawyers” trying to take their case to court was what demarkets the state.
“I was sent news stories of a story credited to the Rivers State Government to the effect that, I, Senator Abe, was going around de-marketing Rivers State because I’m looking for appointment.
“Part of the challenges that we are facing in this state is our inability to face reality. There are 36 states in this county and there are thousands of election petition matters all across the country.
“But it was only in Rivers State that lawyers stayed in a hotel, trying to put things together to take their case to court that they brought police to harass them, arrest them, intimidate them in the hotel in the state.
“Those kinds of actions de-market Rivers State. It’s not what I say that de-markets the state,”
