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…Says It’s A Worthless Jamboree

LAGOS – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to attend, monitor or supervise the Saturday, March 26, 2022 National convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to the party, in a statement signed by Debo Ologunagba, its National Publicity Secretary, the convention is a jamboree being organised by the APC, which it described as a defunct political party.

The PDP forewarns that INEC would be going outside its statutory mandate under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and the Electoral Act 2022 by attending or monitoring the purported APC National Convention.

INEC, being a government agency set up by law, that also draws from the budgetary allocation of the country with respect to superintending over electoral processes and management of political parties, can only superintend over and monitor bodies over which it has mandate to supervise. This presupposes that any such body must be legally operating as a political party under INEC rules and guidelines.

The APC, having been defunct on December 8, 2020, when it dissolved its National, States as well as Local Government structures ceases, in the eyes of the law, to be a political party and as such cannot be subject of INEC’s regulations with particular reference to its supposed National Convention.

For emphasis, the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CEC) was established for the singular purpose of organizing the APC National Convention in 2020. The Committee violated the Constitution and the Electoral Act by engaging in party istration, conducting congresses to produce officers at the various state Chapters as well as delegates for APC National Convention.

In any event, the CEC by its composition with a state governor, H.E. Mai Mala Buni as Chairman is illegal and unconstitutional by reason of Section 183 of the Nigerian Constitution which bars a sitting governor from holding “any other executive office in any capacity whatsoever”.
Article 14 (i) of the APC Constitution, clearly states that the Chairman of the APC “shall be the “Chief Executive…” of the party.

In going beyond its mandate, the CEC acted ultra vires and all istrative acts purportedly done or deemed to have been done by this Committee are null and void and void ab-initio.

To this effect, delegates to the APC purported National Convention produced by congresses conducted by the CEC are at best-handicapped delegates with leprous fingers who cannot deliver any vote to produce a valid and legal political leadership for the APC. INEC should therefore not waste public resources to monitor a jamboree that would be of no legal or electoral effect under our laws.

“If the APC had listened to one its , the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, SAN, who had cautioned that the “competence of Governor Mai Mala Buni to organise the congresses has been called to question by the Supreme Court,” it would not have been in this quagmire.

“Our Party for the umpteenth time cautions Nigerians who intend to participate in the electoral process under the APC to be guided as they are on a voyage that leads to nowhere.”

https://independent.ng/pdp-to-inec-dont-monitor-apc-national-convention/

Na only God know the kind opposition wey pdp dey do oh.

Electoral umpire shouldn't monitor a major electoral process of the ruling party?

Here we go again. I thought since PDP has putting new leadership in place, we will be seeing vibrant and well articulated criticism.

People deceiving people.
Wetin concern them again for Apc convention.
Bad belle people

E don set. PDP,APC are birds of a feather

.....PDP never just ready to cease power from APC...... Since it's pretty clear Tinubu has been sidelined by the ruling party , Pdp should woe him with the same format Buhari and his cabals used in 2015..... After that they can kick his ass again

These people turned down Lai Mohammed's offer of a crash course on opplosition and 7 years on, they are still fumbling in the name of playing opposition.

Pdp, see una life outside.

What's una business with Apc convention to start with? Na so una idleness don reach?

LeoDeKing:
Na only God know the kind opposition wey pdp dey do oh.

Electoral umpire shouldn't monitor a major electoral process of the ruling party?

D matter nor shock u.? Lol.....

LeoDeKing:
Na only God know the kind opposition wey pdp dey do oh.

Electoral umpire shouldn't monitor a major electoral process of the ruling party?

LeoDeKing, did you bother to read the content of the press release.
PDP actually made valid points

Hahahahahahahaha...... PDP be behaving like clowns.

Bobloco:

LeoDeKing, did you bother to read the content of the press release.
PDP actually made valid points

Oya summarize the epistle to us as we are having comprehension problem.

This matter go long I hope INEC will do the needful.

Very valid points

Bobloco:

LeoDeKing, did you bother to read the content of the press release.
PDP actually made valid points

PDP really introducing a new angle to APC wahala. If u think PDP isn't making sense then u are one of those pushing APC into making terrible mistakes

LeoDeKing:
Na only God know the kind opposition wey pdp dey do oh.

Electoral umpire shouldn't monitor a major electoral process of the ruling party?

Thats the law but if INEC feels they will monitor the convention thats their own, but I clearly doubt if Apc will have any valid candidates

LeoDeKing:
Na only God know the kind opposition wey pdp dey do oh.

Electoral umpire shouldn't monitor a major electoral process of the ruling party?

Because APC has Zamfara-ed herself by her actions of Dec 8, 2020.

Pdp suppose just shun politics enter full time comedy.
Most senseless and shameless opposition party ever

WATCHOVER:

Thats the law but if INEC feels they will monitor the convention thats their own, but I clearly doubt if Apc will have any valid candidates

The fortune teller, we go remind you after the convention

People just comment without reading or having a full understanding of the content of this post. A supreme court decision had already established the illegality of Governor Buni chairing the affairs of APC as it negates the provisions of the constitution of the country as well as APC constitution. Trust me, since that court judgement, I have held the fear that APC ceases to be a political party and that's what PDP is reaffirming. This calls for great concerns and not name calling.
I have received a lot of mentions raining insults on my comment where they were supposed to ask reasonable questions for clarification, but I leave the unsolicited answers for future litigations. APC maybe on their way to destruction. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof is destruction. I will not say this again.

Anything about apc is evil.

Gossipers
Birds of the same feather

Lol…mumu opposition….make dem go learn work from lai Muhammad

both the apc and pdp are mad but apc the madder

You’re boat beds of the same feathers

This kind of Opposition Abi Na witchcraft

PDP has more sense than APC when it comes to playing politics. Just that APC makes the louder noise.
What PDP said in their press conference is enough to send jitters down the spine of APC but this is Nigeria, anything goes.