APC ward congress a nullity - PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stated that the ward congress conducted by All Progressive Congress (APC) amounts to a nullity, given the pronouncement of the Supreme Court, which invalidates Governor Mai Mala Buni led national executive. 

PDP disclosed this in a statement, signed by the National publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, stating that the party strongly vilifies Governor Buni and other APC leaders for deceiving Nigerians and cajoling them to participate the exercise, which ended in violent crisis and avoidable deaths. 

According to the statement, "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.

"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 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."

PDP counseled those who participated in the APC ward congress, saying that they should not worsen their situation by allowing the APC leaders to further set them against one another in bloody clashes. 

"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. That is why the APC, as a party, as well as its government at all levels are plagued by crisis, confusion and endless bloodletting," the statement read.