The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) lacks a viable presidential candidate for the 2023 general election.
Debo Ologunagba, the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, had asked the ruling party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to seek legal advice on the implications of last month’s court ruling that nullified Governor Mai Mala Buni’s tenure as chairman of the party’s national caretaker committee.
The main opposition party also pressed Tinubu to account for the consequences and implications of his academic qualifications discrepancies and other controversies.
PDP spokesman, speaking at a press conference in Abuja, urged Tinubu “to go home and face the issues of inconsistencies in his educational qualifications, name, ancestry, age as well as corruption allegations.”
The APC responded by dismissing Ologunagba’s statement, saying he should seek clarification.
Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the APC, stated that the Federal High Court decision was flawed.
Morka stated, “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.”
