DSS Quizzes First IYC leader, Tuodolo Over Mutu’s Petition To Stop His Participation In PDP Primaries

Operatives of the Department of Security Services (DSS) has drilled first president of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, and
House of Representatives aspirant in Delta State, Dr Felix Tuodolo, over alleged frivolous petition against him by incumbent lawmaker representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency, Mr. Nicholas Mutu.

Mutu, who is said to be jittery over the entering of Tuodolo into the race was said to have plotted to stop the latter from being cleared for the forthcoming PDP Primaries.

In a letter to the National Working Committee of the PDP obtained by BigPen Online, Tuodolo who was cleared to contest the primaries for Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Screening Committee, on Wednesday alleged that Nicholas Mutu, the incumbent, is in a strange moves to stop his ambition.

Tuodolo, in the letter, said the Department of Security Services (DSS) drilled him September 25, 2018 in Asaba over frivolous allegations in a petition allegedly written by Hon Nicholas Mutu in continuing efforts to stop him from contesting the primaries.

“I am not unaware of the fact that Hon Mutu has been boasting of his very close relationship with our national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, who he said has promised to do everything possible to return him (Mutu) to the National Assembly by manipulating the party primaries.

“I believe that our national chairman and national working committee are members with integrity and will not allow a few bad eggs in the PDP to continue to damage the image of the party”, Tuodolo noted.

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Tuodolo, the first president of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, who noted that his aspiration was greeted with mass appeal, said he had escaped the hammer of the screening committee in Asaba over an allegation that he was not a registered voter in Delta State.

Tuodolo said he tendered his voter’s card whose number he had quoted in his form, anyway, showing that he was a registered voter in Bomadi in Delta State before he was subsequently cleared.

“The attempt to disqualify me on the frivolous excuse of not citing a photocopy of my voter’s card tells volumes. Our party must be saved from undemocratic tendencies if we must make progress and recapture power at the centre”, he pleaded.