The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the ward congresses conducted by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as nullity given the split decision of the Supreme Court faulting the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led national executive.
In a statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP chided 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.”
The statement read: “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