The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare vacant, the seats of lawmakers
elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, its spokesman, the
opposition party also asked INEC to officially deregister APC.
He was reacting to the dissolution of the APC’s party
structures by the national executive committee (NEC) of the party.
Ologbondiyan, who said APC no longer has an operational
structure required by law, added that December 8, 2020, should be remembered as
a “liberation day” for Nigerians “as their tormentor for five years has finally
dissolved out of our political firmament”.
“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,” he said.
“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 (INEC) 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 APC at the federal and state levels as vacant and commence the
process of bye-election to fill the seats, as required by law.
“Furthermore, government agencies, civil society
organizations, as well as the international community, should immediately
gazette the APC as a defunct political organization in our country.”
He asked 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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