The PDP wants the APC deregistered because it no longer has any operational structure in the country as required by law
The Peoples Democratic
Party PDP has asked the electoral commission, INEC, to deregister the ruling
party, APC.
The main opposition
party also asked INEC to recall APC’s certificate of registration after
deregistering it.
In a statement by its
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP also asked the commission to declare
the seat of all lawmakers elected on the platform of the APC at the federal and
state levels vacant.
The party was reacting
to the dissolution of the APC executives across the states and zones in the
country by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the APC.
The APC-NEC had on
Tuesday dissolved the executive committees in states and local governments but
extended the Mala Buni-led national caretaker committee’s tenure by another six
months.
The party also
expelled its former vice-chairman (South-South), Hilliard Eta.
The opposition party,
which said since the APC forcefully exited itself from the nation’s political
firmament by dissolving all its national, zonal and state structures, the party
no longer has operational structures as required by law.
The PDP added that
following the exit, the day should be remembered as a liberation day.
The statement read in
part, “The APC, being overburdened by the weight of failure, humongous
corruption as well as the plagues of economic recession, violence, killings and
hardship it has brought to our people, forcefully exited itself from the
nation’s political firmament by dissolving all its national, zonal and state
structures.
“With this exit,
December 8, 2020, has gone into the history of our nation as liberation day,
especially given the spontaneous jubilation by Nigerians over this step towards
political oblivion by a political party that has brought so much pain on them.
“Now that the APC has
become defunct, the PDP invites the Independent National Electoral Commission
to officially deregister the APC and recall its certificate of registration;
given that it no longer has operational structures as required by law.”
“In the same vein,
INEC should immediately declare the seat of all lawmakers elected on the
platform of the APC at the federal and state levels as vacant and commence the
process of bye-elections to fill the seats as required by law.”
The PDP also called on
all political stakeholders and the international community to henceforth regard
the APC as a defunct political organisation in the country.
“Furthermore,
government agencies, civil society organisations as well as the international
community should immediately gazette the APC as a defunct political
organisation in our country.
“Nevertheless, the PDP
invites all leaders of the fizzled APC to get ready to answer Nigerians for
their misdeeds, and not to think they can get away with their atrocities by
forming or joining another political party.”
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