The All-Progressives Congress (APC) sudden withdrawal of a lawsuit filed against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has been met with mockery by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The APC had recently filed a lawsuit challenging the Executive Order 21 and 22 assented to by Governor Wike.

A statement by the Rivers State APC spokesperson, Darlington Nwanju said that the party took a U-turn and decided to withdraw the suit, citing “strategic reasons”.

Reacting to the withdrawal in a statement signed by the chairman of Publicity and Communications committee of the PDP campaign council, Hon. Ogbonna Nwuke, the party congratulated APC for withdrawing the suit, describing it as “an attempt to mislead the public opinion by going to court.”

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The statement read “We want to congratulate the APC for doing what is right by withdrawing a frivolous and inconsequential suit brought against Orders 21 and 22.

“For once, the APC has told the Rivers people the truth. The truth is that it deliberately attempted to misled public opinion by going to court.

“As we know now, there was never any substance in the suit. What we cannot comprehend is why the APC is trying to say it withdrew for strategic reasons. What is strategic in telling lies?

“Haven withdrawn the suit, the APC cannot in all honesty claim that the executive orders are still illegal. If the executive orders and the position taken by the Rivers State House of Assembly are illegal, why did it withdraw from court?

“Accordingly, the claim that the APC withdrew for strategic reasons is neither here nor there.

“The only strategic reason that we know which has led the APC to withdraw the suit, is the realization that there is no way it could win a matter that is deceitful, frivolous, defective and baseless.”