{"id":82837,"date":"2021-06-28T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=82837"},"modified":"2021-06-28T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T18:12:49","slug":"zamfara-pdp-cautions-matawalle-nass-state-lawmakers-against-defection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/zamfara-pdp-cautions-matawalle-nass-state-lawmakers-against-defection\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara: PDP Cautions Matawalle, NASS, State Lawmakers Against Defection\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Against the expected defection of Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is watching developments in the state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The PDP categorically cautioned Gov Bello Matawalle to know that his plans amounts to a decision to vacate office as no law allows him to cross over to any other party with the governorship mandate statutorily given to the PDP through the ballot box, as already established by the provision of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the standing judgment of the Supreme Court.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Addressing a conference in Abuja,\u00a0 Monday, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said a combined reading of Section 221 of the 1999 Constitution as the pronouncements of the Supreme Court in Faleke v. INEC (2016) is clear in holding that it is the political party that stands for election, that votes scored in election belong to the political party and that the candidate nominated to contest at an election by his party, acts only as the agent of his party.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The PDP also cautions members of the National Assembly as well as members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, not to allow themselves to be pushed into losing their seats as the provisions of the constitution is very clear in barring lawmakers from cross carpeting, except in a situation of a division in the political party upon which platform they were elected.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;There is no division in the PDP to warrant to defection of any of our lawmakers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The PDP hopes that Bello Matawalle as well as members of the National and State Assembly from Zamfara state will take caution.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kola Ologbondiyan said meanwhile, the National Working Committee (NWC) has approved the dissolution of the Zamfara State Executive of the party.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The decision is in line with the provision of Section 29 (2)(b) of the PDP Constitution 2017 (as amended).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;All party leaders, critical stakeholders and teeming members of our party in Zamfara state should, by this, be guided accordingly.&#8221;<\/div>\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>Against the expected defection of Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is watching developments in&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":82838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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