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.
Via: Punchng
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