The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the recent ward congresses conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as needless excercise.
PDP was reacting to congresses which were held for ward representatives of the APC across states.
The opposition party, through its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan described the APC congresses as “futile” exercise.
“The PDP strongly vilifies Governor Buni and other APC leaders for deceiving innocent Nigerians and cajoling them to participate in the needless exercise, which ended in violent crisis and avoidable deaths, when they know it was all in futility,”
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“It is indeed callous that the leaders of the APC, despite knowing that any process conducted by the Buni-led national executive, whose legal status, in the face of section 183 of the 1999 Constitution and Article 17(4) of the APC constitution, has been queried by the Supreme Court, could extort from their innocent followers and subject them to a fraudulent exercise that is a nullity.”
The party cited section 183 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which bars a sitting governor from holding any other office while serving as state governor, and Article 17(4) of the APC constitution, which states that “no officer in any organ of the party shall hold executive position office in government concurrently”.
“The implication is that with Mai Buni as Chairman, the APC has no valid national executive and as such any congress or any other statutory process conducted by the APC under this circumstance remains a nullity,”
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“Our party therefore counsels those who participated in the ridiculous drama called APC ward congress to know that they have been viciously scammed. They should not worsen their situation by allowing the deceptive APC leaders to further set them against one another in bloody clashes for a party that has technically gone defunct.
“The situation in the APC is symptomatic of the disgraceful end of a political contraption that was set up and operated on the basis of lies, deceit, falsehood, violence, disrespect for Nigerians and utter disregard to rules.”
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