 The governorship candidate of the Accord Party, Dumor Lulu Briggs, has described the recent appointment of 100,000 special assistants on political units by the Reversed Governor Newsom Wike as tactics of vote-buying ahead of the 2023 governorship election in the state. Dumor speaking with Newsman at the sideline of the case between Accord and People's Party, at the federal court in Port Harcott said that the state's ruling party's tactics of vote buying are unfair to other political parties and therefore called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to take up the matter and probably sanction the People's Democratic Party. It's clear 100,000 special assistants and advisors, unit advisors across the polling units. It cannot be described differently. It's as simple as that. It's as plain as it is. It's both buying. It's not that when you want to give your party a head start, 100,000 persons are already paying money across the units. I mean, how else do you say it? For my concern is that this Goliath is too afraid. You have structures, you're big, you're in government, yet you want to employ underhand tactics, games of advantage. And it's very unfair. I think that INEC writes, you don't want to insist on level playing ground and this is a matter that must take up and probably sanction the PDP. Once they sanction them, because I mean it's the government doing that, it's the PDP government. So the obvious thing is to give advantage to the candidate of the PDP. No doubt about it, you know. If you don't have a candidate that is popular, it's unfortunate. I mean, it was a choice to decide on who to present. So when you present someone that you should allow the rivers to decide and not give yourselves, you know, 100,000 votes ahead of you. Meanwhile, the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harkett has directed the People's Democratic Party and River State to serve their court party. They amended court's process before the next adjourned date. Justice Steven Delopam gave the directives at resuming hearing on the suit by the PDP against the National Assembly candidates of the party in the state over alleged non-compliance to the new electoral act in the conduct of party primaries. When the matter was called off in court, counsel to a court, Mohammed Abdul-Mohammed informed the court that the PDP, who is the plaintiff in the matter, is yet to perfect the ruling of the court, directing it to serve their amended process to the defendants. What happened today is that we took a date for us to proceed. Unfortunately, unfortunately, I regrettably too, you know, we couldn't proceed due to no fault of ours. But the fault of the plaintiff, because the court granted an order for them to amend their processes and serve us the amended processes, but they couldn't do it. And we had to take a date. We had to be constrained, you know, to adjourn this matter. And that's what happened. We had wanted to ask for cost. We decided not to ask for cost. It's too early in the proceedings. That's just what happened today. The presiding judge, Justice Steven Delopam, after listening to explanations from the representatives, adjourned till the first and eleventh of November for hearing and possible adoption in addresses. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.