Wednesday, 27 November 2013
THE NEW PDP AND AC AGREED NEW POWER SHARING DEAL;DEFECTING LAWMAKERS' SEAT SAFE.
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Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the National Publicity Secretary of the just breakaway
faction of the PDP, has denied a press statement credited to him stating that
the merger between the group and APC, was still on hold.
Eze categorically denied issuing the statement, which was widely
circulated by media outlets. He also added that a Memorandum of Understanding,
MOU, with the All Progressives Congress was signed.
Find the full statement by the party below:
“It has been brought to my notice that a statement denying the
merger between the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) and the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has been credited to me and my office. I was quoted as saying
that the MOU between the two parties is yet to be signed and because of this
the merger is yet to be effected.”
“I
wish to state that no such statement was at any time issued by me or my office.
Instead, I wish to reiterate that the MOU between us and APC has been duly
signed by both the nPDP National Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, and the
National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande.”
“In this regard, the general public should disregard any
statement from whatever source which tries to give the impression that the
merger between us and APC is in danger. The truth in that the merger is waxing
stronger by the day and that our resolve to save our fledgling democracy is
unshakable.”
“As we stated in our press statement of yesterday, President
Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP leadership should come to terms with the fact
that PDP is now an opposition political party and Jonathan should start writing
his handover notes as APC is fully set to take over the Aso Rock Presidential
Villa in 2015 so as to give Nigerians the dividends of democracy they have been
yearning for.”
“Meanwhile, we have read reports that members of the National
Assembly that follow us to APC will lose their seats. This cannot happen as it
will be at variance with the relevant sections of our Constitution and
Electoral Laws that guarantee members of the National Assembly safety once
their parent party is in crisis as PDP is at the moment.”
For the avoidance of doubt, there is no danger of their losing
their seats as made clear by sections 68(1)(g) and 109(1)(g) of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) in relation to the
status of members of a legislative house (state and national) who defect from
the political parties from which they were elected to join another political
party.
The wordings of the aforesaid sections are in agreement with
those of sections 64(1)(g) of the 1979 Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria given judicial interpretation by the Supreme Court in the case of
FEDECO Vs Goni (1983) FNR 203. This case was argued by the best legal minds of
that era (Chief FRA Williams SAN and GOK Ajayi SAN). The court held that such a
member keeps his seat if his defection is as a result of a division or split in
his party.
In this regard particularly now that we have the majority in the
National Assembly our members in the National Assembly should express no fear
as they are well protected and covered by the Constitution of the Federal
Republic seeing that Alh Bamanga Tukur and his cohorts have succeeded to split
the PDP into old and new PDP and are free to join any party of their choice.
Long live NPDP!
Long live Nigeria!!!
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka
National Publicity Secretary, NPDP
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