National Conference: PPA to sue FG

The Progressive Peoples Party is putting finishing touches to its move to sue the Federal Government for the non-inclusion of the party in the list of the upcoming National Conference.
The party said it was wrong for it to have been excluded from the list of political parties that will be at the conference.
According to the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Dr. Vitalis Orikeze Ajumbe, the decision to sue the Federal Government was taken after a meeting of the National Working Committee.
Ajumbe, who spoke with newsmen, said: “Our Party raised an alarm on the 4th of this Month when we discovered that our Party was not invited to nominate a delegate to represent it in the National conference and we quickly summoned an emergency National Working Committee (NWC) meeting where we resolved to formally bring to the notice of the Secretary to the Federal Government and the Presidency, this omission of our Party from the list; and this we did, but up till this moment, we have not received a reply from them.
“Our Party, PPA is qualified to nominate a delegate to that confab to represent our interest. PPA has met all the requirements for a registered Party in Nigeria in accordance with constitution and the 2011 electoral Act as amended which stipulates on section 78[2] that a Party must at least have a seat in the state House of Assembly, this, we complied with as we have the Honourable member representing Ekenemor ii State constituency in Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Prezi, a PPA member. This has shown that we have the capacity to win election and as such we are a parliamentary Party .
“It is important to state here that all recognised political Parties are equal before the law and none should be given a special privilege over others. We hereby state very clearly that our great Party, PPA is not against the National conference, but all we want is that this omission should be corrected before the confab commences as we shall have no other alternative than to go to court to fight for our right. We demand to know the criteria they used in including the Political Parties they invited to nominate representatives as all recognised political parties are equal before the law.”