Supreme Court has nullified APC congresses under Buni – PDP - Punch Newspapers
on the Ondo State governorship election, which invalidates the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ruling party.
The PDP said 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 party, the judgment by the apex court means that the intra-party polls by the APC under the leadership Buni would be null and void.The statement issued in reaction to the exercise 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 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 bars a sitting governor from holding any other office while serving as state governor, Article 17 of the APC constitution clearly states that ‘no officer in any organ of the party shall hold executive position in government concurrently.’
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