PDP to INEC: Nullify outcome of APC National Convention

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to nullify the outcome of Saturday’s National Convention of the All Progressives Congress.
The position of the party was stated on Wednesday by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, when he received a delegation of the party’a leaders from Kaba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, at the national headquarters in Abuja.
Ologbondiyan said the position of the party was premised on the fact that the conduct of the National Convention violated the Electoral Act as amended, which stipulated that such exercise as electing officers of political party must be done through voting.
He said the party on its own chose to ignore the provision of the Electoral Act, adopting voice voting to electing their national officials despite the fact that party members aspiring for various offices came to the venue of the convention to participate in the voting.
He said: “Party members were openly harassed, beaten, humiliated and forced to withdraw at a gunpoint and thereafter announced their national officers through voice vote to affirm the illegality at the Eagle Square.
“When the PDP did a similar thing, INEC declared the convention null and void.
“So, we are calling on the Commission to do same to APC in line with the provisions of the Electoral Act, as amended.”
Ologbondoiyan also called on the Economic and Financial Commission to probe the source of the N150 million said to have been contributed by each governors elected on the platform of the APC towards hosting the Convention as well as the over N3.5 billion “wasted by the party on the Convention”.
He also urged the EFCC to expedite action on the petition of alleged massive corruption against the new National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, pending before the commission since the APC-led Federal Government said it was committed to stamping out corruption in the county.
He said efforts being made by new NWC of the PDP to reposition and rebrand it towards regaining power in 2019 for the country to regain its lost glory.
The leader of the delegation, Dr. Stephen Olorunfemi, commended the new leadership of the party for its move to reposition it ahead of the 2019 general election.
Olorunfemi said the members of the party in Kogi State will do their part also to ensure that the PDP regains the seat of power in the state.