A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Amah Abraham, says the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not yet recognized the party’s national convention that took place in Ibadan, Oyo State last November.
Abraham made this disclosure on Tuesday during an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST.
According to him, what INEC did was to issue caution to the political parties.
“As I said earlier, with what happened at that meeting, it is very clear that everything that happened at Ibadan has not been recognized by INEC. INEC as a body saddled with the responsibility of managing the affairs of political parties in Nigeria have made it very that for now it is the courts that will determine the way forward.
“What INEC did on that day was an issuance of a vote of caution to the warring faction. It was not a meeting to endorse it was a meeting to tell them that inasmuch as there is a Supreme Court ruling that political party business is an internal affairs of that political party.
“That being an internal affairs does not necessarily mean that they must act in abeyance, they must act arbitrarily, they must act against the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, they must act against the electoral law.
“At some point in that meeting, I remember Turaki, the acclaim winner of the convention, presented himself as somebody who was validly elected by the by the convention. The chairman himself made it very clear to him that that convention went ahead against the judgment of two Federal High Courts,” he said.