The All Progressives Congress has strongly
warned the PDP not to to go ahead with its
diabolical plan to declare vacant the seats of the
five PDP Governors who recently defected to the
APC, saying apart from being illegal and smacking
of double standard, such a move has the potential
to plunge the polity into chaos.
In a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by its
Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, the party said that even as the PDP
has continued to lick the mortal wound inflicted
on it by the loss of five preeminent Governors in
one fell swoop, any attempt by the party (PDP) to
act in desperation and declare the Governors’
seats vacant will be met with an unprecedented
show of people power that will end, once and for
all, the impunity of the PDP and the Presidency.
”We have irrefutable evidence that the PDP is
desperately shopping for a pliant Judge who will
be heavily induced to declare vacant the seats of
the five Governors who recently defected to the
APC. We also have the name of the lawyers who
have been retained by the PDP for this hatchet
job.
”We are in possession of the various nefarious
legal options being explored by the villainous duo
of the PDP and the Presidency but we hereby
serve a strong notice to the duo that any attempt
by anyone through any means other than what is
provided for in section 188 of the 1999
Constitution as amended will not only have grave
consequences but will leave the polity severely
bruised.
”We know the PDP and the Presidency are
anarchic and nihilistic, and will not mind to
pursue any narrow and selfish objective, even if
doing such can plunge the nation into crisis. But
their cup is gradually getting full. Having got away
with their trademark impunity in Delta and
Anambra States, these lawless, reckless and
feckless duo of maleficence now believe they can
continue to act without regards to the laws of the
land and with no scintilla of decency.
”We wish to state unequivocally that should the
PDP go ahead with this plan, there will be
widespread repercussions as the APC has
resolved that henceforth, every act of impunity of
the PDP and the
Presidency will be met with stiff resistance in the
form of a vociferous telegraphing of people power,
the likes of which have not been witnessed in
these parts,” it said.
APC reminded the PDP and the Presidency that a
party that boasts of 16 Governors….still
counting…and has control of the National
Assembly has what it takes to use people power
to stop acts of impunity, disregard for the laws of
the land and barbaric brigandage – and that is
exactly what the APC will do in
the event of any unlawful declaration of the five
Governors’ seats vacant.
The party also warned against any attempt by the
PDP and the Presidency to turn back the hands of
the clock as far as the cleaning up of the judiciary
is concerned, by inducing a servile and
disreputable Judge to do the duo’s bidding.
”We recognize the efforts of the present CJN to
sanitize the Judiciary since she assumed the
mantle of leadership but she should not allow any
black leg to reverse the gains that have been
recorded on the altar of unmitigated avarice. This
is because if that happens, Nigerians will hold the
Judiciary vicariously liable for the catastrophic
consequences that may follow,” it said.
Accusing the PDP of engaging in double standard,
APC said ”For all of 14 years, elected members of
the State Houses of Assembly as well as the
National Assembly have been defecting mostly to
the PDP and nocourt has ever declared their seats
vacant.
”Late Senator Wahab Dosunmu and Senator
Adeseye Ogunlewe, then of the Alliance for
Democracy (AD), blazed the trail when they
decamped to the PDP within a year of their
election. Since then scores of elected lawmakers
at state and federal levels have defected to the
PDP without any eyebrows being raised or anyone
declaring their seats vacant.
”When Governors Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State and
Theodore Orji of Abia state, both elected on the
platform of the PPA, and Governor Isah Yuguda of
Bauchi state, who was elected on the platform of
the ANPP, defected to the PDP, nobody declared
their seats vacant.
”As a matter of fact, the PDP under late President
Umar Yar’Adua organized an elaborate reception
to welcome Gov. Yuguda to the PDP. Why then
should the case of the five PDP Governors (still
counting)who have joined the APC be different?
Why is the PDP suddenly afraid of taking the
same medicine it has been administering to
others? Does it mean that all the bravado that has
been displayed by the PDP, which says it is not
bothered by the defection of the five Governors, is
just a facade to hide its deep pain at the
monumental loss?” the party queried.
It also asked the PDP and the Presidency, if they
can allow a rare moment of introspection, to go
and read – and be guided by – the ruling of the
Supreme Court after the PDP attempted to make
then Vice President Atiku Abubakar to lose his
seat and to also strip him of his privileges
following his defection to the ACN.

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