Steer clear, perish thoughts of forcefully taking over Rivers State – PDP warns APC

Forum 5 months ago

Steer clear, perish thoughts of forcefully taking over Rivers State – PDP warns APC

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, to steer clear of Rivers State, saying the party should perish thoughts of forcefully taking over the state.

This is even as the PDP claimed that the recent statement by the APC on the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State has further exposed its hallucinating and manipulative plots to force itself into government in the state against the will of the people.

PDP spoke in a statement by Debo Ologunagba, its National Publicity Secretary, on Saturday.

PDP spoke in a statement by Debo Ologunagba, its National Publicity Secretary, on Saturday.

Ologunagba said APC laboured without success to subvert the Constitution on the vacation of seats by former members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who, according to him, have lost their membership of the legislative house upon defection from the party.

He said it was pathetic for the APC to think that the facts and true import of Section 109 (1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to the effect that the former lawmakers have since lost their seats can be muddled and lost in litigations and lengthy press statements.

Ologunagba further stated that the former House members for reasons best known to them, wittingly vacated and summarily lost their seats, insisting that nothing protects or allows them to retain their membership of the House after decamping to another political party.

According to him, the APC should come to terms with the vacation of seats by the former lawmakers.

The statement partly read: “It is indeed pathetic for the APC to think that the facts and true import of Section 109 (1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to the effect that the former lawmakers have since lost their seats can be muddled and lost in litigations and lengthy press statements.