According to the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no valid candidate for the 2023 presidential election (PDP).
Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, said at a press conference at the party headquarters on Saturday that the nullification of the candidacy of Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola confirmed the party’s position that the executives and candidates put together by Yobe Governor Mai Mala Buni were illegal.
Last week, a Federal High Court in Abuja nullified the nomination of Governor Isiaka Oyetola and his Deputy, Benedict Alabi, as APC candidates in the Osun State governorship election.
The nominations of Oyetola and his deputy were nullified by the presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite, on the grounds that Buni, who gave the duo tickets, violated the law by holding two executive positions at the same time.
The Federal High Court’s decision, according to Olgunagba, means that every decision made by Buni, including supervising the election that produced the Abdullahi Adamu APC leadership and, by extension, the primaries that produced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is null and void.
As a result, he urged Nigerians not to waste their votes and instead support the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
“On Friday, September 30, 2022, the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja nullified Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s candidature in the July 16 2022 Osun State Governorship election on the grounds that his nomination was invalid, having been conducted and submitted by Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, in violation of Section 183 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).”
“The Congresses and National Convention that produced APC EXCOs, including the Sen. Adamu Abdullahi-led NWC, are null and void.” In effect, the Sen. Adamu-led NWC’s primaries and Presidential Convention, including the nomination of Ahmed Bola Tinubu as APC Presidential Candidate, are invalid, null and void from the start.”
Tinubu, according to Ologunagba, has nothing to offer and should return home to deal with “issues of inconsistencies in his educational qualifications, name, ancestry, age, and corruption allegations.”
He, on the other hand, stated that the PDP will officially launch its 2023 Presidential Election Campaign on Monday, October 10, 2022 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State Capital, and that they were ready for an issue-based campaign.
“Under the Unified Campaign Structure approved by our Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), the PDP will take our campaign to all States, Local Government Areas, Wards, and Polling Units across the country.”
Daily Trust
