The Kawu Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Indepenent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to de-register the Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the party.
Baraje said Tukur's PDP failed 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 while maintaining that Tukur is not a bona fide member of the party having been expelled by its National Executive Committee (NEC) in 2001. Baraje's faction held that Tukur has yet to be properly re-admitted into the party let alone be its national chairman.
In its statement of claim, the Baraje faction reminded the High Court of Lagos State that it was the 2009 PDP constitution that midwifed the party's amended 2012 constitution and strange clauses were inserted into the original produced version of the 2012 constitution and those alterations were not approved by the party convention and the National Executive Committee thereby making the document a forged document which is invalid," the faction told the court.
Baraje's faction prayed the court to void the August 2013 convention of the party on the grounds of illegal delegates in the convention, and the arbitrary disqualification of duly elected delegates by the Screening Subcommittee of the National Convention Committee.
The camp urged the court not to turn a blind eye on of the party's failure to comply with the provision of Section 85(1) of the Electoral Act which holds that, "a registered political party shall give INEC at least 21 days notice of any convention, congress, conference or meeting convened for the purpose of electing members of its executive committees, and other governing bodies."
The faction also claimed to have evidence on unelected delegates from the South West Zonal Caretaker Committee participating and voting in the 2013 national convention.*
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