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For failing to comply with Section 222(D) of the Nigerian Constitution,
which requires a political party to notify the electoral umpire about
an alteration in its constitution, the faction of the loyal to Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has asked the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister a faction of the
party led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
The group, PDP Stakeholders Forum, at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, also said it has approached a Federal High Court seeking to nullify last Saturday’s convention of the party.
A paper of claims, which the Baraje faction is taking before the Court obtained is also asking the court to declare Tukur an illegal chairman of the ruling party on account of the claim that he was not appropriately accepted as a member of the party after his expulsion by the National Executive Council of the PDP in 2001.
Similarly, the group said it’s also seeking an order of the court for the removal of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the PDP.
Controversial PDP youth activist, Ugochinyere Ikenga, who addressed the conference accused the party and Tukur of series of constitutional and procedural breaches in the conduct of the last convention.
“In view of these, we have successfully instituted a law suit at the Federal High Court here in Abuja seeking an order of the court to among other things nullify the 2013 convention of the PDP, nullify the continued stay in office of Bamanga Tukur in view of his ineligibility to be chairman of our party by virtue of his non-membership of the party since his expulsion in 2001.
“Tukur did not apply for, nor obtain the requisite waiver by the National Executive Committee of the party before offering himself for election into the office of national chairman in 2012.
“The legal effect of the foregoing is that with an utterly flawed and incurably defective membership, the nomination, subsequent election and continued stay in office of Bamanga Tukur as chairman is fraudulent, illegal and unconstitutional.
“Consequently, the non-membership of the PDP by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur had cast a very serious legal burden on his competence to vie for, hold and continued occupation of the office of national chairman of the PDP, and his refusal to call for a NEC meeting since 2012 amounts to a grave and unpardonable violation of the constitution of the PDP, ” Ikenga stated.
A paper of claims, which the Baraje faction is taking before the Court obtained is also asking the court to declare Tukur an illegal chairman of the ruling party on account of the claim that he was not appropriately accepted as a member of the party after his expulsion by the National Executive Council of the PDP in 2001.
Similarly, the group said it’s also seeking an order of the court for the removal of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the national chairman of the PDP.
Controversial PDP youth activist, Ugochinyere Ikenga, who addressed the conference accused the party and Tukur of series of constitutional and procedural breaches in the conduct of the last convention.
“In view of these, we have successfully instituted a law suit at the Federal High Court here in Abuja seeking an order of the court to among other things nullify the 2013 convention of the PDP, nullify the continued stay in office of Bamanga Tukur in view of his ineligibility to be chairman of our party by virtue of his non-membership of the party since his expulsion in 2001.
“Tukur did not apply for, nor obtain the requisite waiver by the National Executive Committee of the party before offering himself for election into the office of national chairman in 2012.
“The legal effect of the foregoing is that with an utterly flawed and incurably defective membership, the nomination, subsequent election and continued stay in office of Bamanga Tukur as chairman is fraudulent, illegal and unconstitutional.
“Consequently, the non-membership of the PDP by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur had cast a very serious legal burden on his competence to vie for, hold and continued occupation of the office of national chairman of the PDP, and his refusal to call for a NEC meeting since 2012 amounts to a grave and unpardonable violation of the constitution of the PDP, ” Ikenga stated.
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