PDP asks: Which impunity can be higher than APC ‘violating’ its constitution?

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been violating its own constitution.

Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the opposition party, said this in response to a statement which APC issued on Sunday.

Describing the convention of PDP as a charade, the ruling party said its opponent which prided itself as the biggest political party in Africa has now ‘been reduced to a regional party”.

Bolaji Abdullahi, APC spokesman, who issued the statement said PDP used its convention as an avenue to punish the south-west for voting against it in the last election.

But Ologbondiyan said the ruling party resorted to panic mode “just because the PDP has succeeded in uniting its fronts by conducting of a very credible elective national convention”.

“Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to the spokesman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Malam Bolaji Abdulahi, wherein he criticized the conduct of the elective national convention of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),” Ologbondiyan said in a statement.

“It is indeed laughable that the APC which has roundly failed in not only managing the affairs of the country but also its own internal issues would.

“We were very much aware of the plots by the APC to scuttle the convention and failing it has resorted to a failed attempt to discredit an elective convention that has been adjudged as creditable, novel and laudable by political stakeholders and lovers of democracy across the nation.

“This unwarranted attack is only symptomatic of a party that has lost control and only clutching on straws for survival having been outrightly rejected by Nigerians.

“Is it not disgusting, reprehensible and embarrassing that the APC that has repeatedly failed to hold meetings, congresses and convention in the last three years and has flagrantly continued to violate its own constitution is questioning our party’s rights to perform her legitimate and constitutional obligation?

“Perhaps APC leaders have never read Article 25 (A)(i) of their party’s Constitution which stipulates that “the National Convention of the party (APC) shall be held once in two years at a date, venue and time to be recommended by the National Working Committee (NWC) and approved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) subject to the giving of the statutory notices to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and at least 14 days notice given to members eligible to attend.”

“Which impunity could be higher than APC violating its constitution? It is strange that APC could be moralizing on the principles of social justice whereas its actions against Nigerians are a complete departure from the norms.

“Nigerians have come to discover that APC is a fraud, an organization of deceitful characters who have failed to keep a single of its countless promises made to the citizens.

“It is no longer news that the nation is drifting under APC and the PDP has come to the rescue. We must therefore remind the APC that the era of deceit, trickery and scaremongering, which has been the hallmarks of their government, is gone and Nigerians are just waiting to kick them out come 2019.”