{"id":21019,"date":"2013-12-19T22:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=21019"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:01:10","slug":"be-ready-to-lose-your-seats-pdp-tells-defecting-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/be-ready-to-lose-your-seats-pdp-tells-defecting-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Be ready to  lose your seats PDP tells defecting members&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to claims by 37 defecting members of the House of Rep<\/span><span style=\"display: inline; color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">resentatives elected on the platform of the PDP to the APC that they obtained an injunction restraining the leadership of the National Assembly and the Party from declaring their seats vacant in line with provisions of the Constitution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"display: inline; color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">We have, after a careful review discovered that this claim is false. For the avoidance of doubt, the order of the Court clearly says that \u201cstatus quo\u201d be maintained which means the affected members shall remain members of the PDP.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"display: inline; color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">\u00a0The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in section 68 (i) (g) clearly spells out the consequences of cross carpeting when there is no division in any Party.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"display: inline; color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">\u00a0We wish to re-emphasize here that the Courts have pronounced, and INEC has concurred that there are no factions in the PDP. Since the affected members have renounced their membership of the PDP, we call on the Presiding Officer in the House of Representatives to declare the 37 seats vacant without any further delay.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #808080; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;\">This action shall be in adherence to our grand norm, which is the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended). Nigerians are eagerly awaiting this call to duty as this will go a long way in demonstrating our commitment to the rule of law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"display: inline; color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline; color: #808080; font-size: 10.909090995788574px; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;\">Chief Olisa Metuh National Publicity Secretary<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to claims by 37 defecting members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the PDP&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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