Organisers of the mega rally scheduled to be held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on April 12, in solidarity with President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, have said the event will go on as scheduled.

They decried what they termed as a misinterpretation of the judgement of the Bayelsa State High Court which had earlier issued an order restraining a rally in the state.

Addressing a press conference on Friday in Abuja, one of the organisers and South-South Zonal Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, George Turnah, insisted that the court judgment did not affect the planned rally.

Turna said contrary to insinuations in some quarters, the planned event being organised by a group under the aegis of New Associates, is not for the purposes which the court restrained. Rather, he explained that the event “is for the purpose of inaugurating a group called and known as the New Associates, Bayelsa State Chapter, and then to thank and appreciate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for appointing notable sons and daughters of Bayelsa State into positions of trust in the country.”

He said: “Our rally, as we have said and made public, is for the purpose of inaugurating a group called and known as the New Associates, Bayelsa State Chapter, and then to thank and appreciate President Bola Ahmed Thinibu for appointing notable sons and daughters of Bayelsa State into positions of trust in the country. That is the purpose. It is not the purpose that this court’s order captures.

“In fact, the purpose for which we want to hold our rally is not captured in this order. So if you look at the order, gathering, meeting, holding, organising, doing rally is not included in this order.

“And we are not going to do any rally for the purposes that the court has listed. So we are going ahead. We are going ahead.

“When you look at it (order), it’s just like saying ‘Don’t hold press conference in Cubana Hotel for the purpose of listening to George Turner.’ It doesn’t stop practitioners from holding press conference in Cubana for the purpose of listening to Jeremiah.

“So we are going ahead. Any day we see an order of court stopping us from holding rally for the purpose of appreciating and solidarizing with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and for the purpose of inaugurating the Bayelsa State Chapter of the New Associates, we will know what to do, to comply and follow the law. But as of today, there is no order of court stopping the purpose for which our rally of 12 April is called.”



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