The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claim that the candidacy of the ruling party’s standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is illegal.
KEMI FILANI NEWS had reported that the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Debo Ologunagba, explained that the recent court judgment that nullified the APC candidate in the recently concluded Osun State governorship election, Adgeboyega Oyetola, could be extended to Tinubu’s candidacy.
Ologunagba urged the former Lagos State Governor to seek legal advice on the implications of the court ruling while stating that the APC has no valid presidential candidate for the 2023 general election.
He stated this on Saturday while addressing a press conference in Abuja.
The PDP spokesman advised Tinubu “to go home and face the issues of inconsistencies in his educational qualifications, name, ancestry, age as well as corruption allegations.”
Reacting, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, dismissed Ologunagba’s statement.
Morka said Ologunagba should seek clarification because the Federal High Court judgment was flawed.
He said, “I am confident that the decision will not pass the appellate court’s scrutiny. For one, the decision flies in the face of a valid and subsisting majority Supreme Court decision in Akeredolu’s case which settled the question as to the validity of Mai Mala Buni Caretaker Committee.
“In any event, that committee was duly constituted by the NEC of the APC and everything done by the caretaker committee was duly ratified by the national convention, the highest decision-making organ of the party. Clearly, we stand on the strong legal ground and are unperturbed by that decision.”
