Supreme Court Judgement Has Nullified APC Congresses Under Buni, Says PDP

• The APC had organised its nationwide ward congresses on Saturday amidst controversies and violence

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the ward congresses conducted by the “incapacitated” All Progressives Congress as a nullity.

According to the opposition party, the pronouncement of the Supreme Court on the Ondo State governorship election invalidates the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC.

The PDP stated this in a statement titled ‘APC Ward Congress A Nullity – PDP…Blames Buni, Others Over Fracas, Death’ issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, on Sunday.

According to the PDP, the judgment by the apex court means that the intra-party polls by the APC under the Buni-led CECPC would be null and void.

The APC had organised its nationwide ward congresses on Saturday amidst controversies and violence.

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In reaction to the exercise, the PDP’s statement partly read, “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.

“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 PDP stated that while Section 183 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) bars a sitting governor from holding any other office while serving as state governor, Article 17(4) of the APC constitution clearly states that ‘no officer in any organ of the party shall hold executive position 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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