PDP Moves To Declare APC Lawmakers Seats Vacant

A member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Dakuku Peterside, has said that the move by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to declare vacant the seats of the lawmakers who had defected to the APC is nonsensical.

He said PDP is dreaming because more Reps and Senators would soon defect to APC:

“It (declaring vacant the seats of the defecting Reps) is nonsensical. It clearly shows that those at the helm of affairs right now in the PDP do not know the provisions of the law and in case they know the provisions of the law, they have shown us in recent times that the PDP is not a party that respects the law. 

“It (PDP) is a party of men who champion impunities, men who champion or support corruption. So, we will not be surprised if they pursue what is not realisable, but I can tell you that it is pure waste of time and effort. 

“The Constitution is clear. When a party is either factionalised or a party experiences a division.

“And in the case of the PDP, of course you know what happened from the period of the last national convention in August, where some governors, some members of the National Assembly walked out of the convention and after then set up a parallel secretariat of the party, set up parallel executive of the party and of course on the floor of the National Assembly it was acknowledged that there are various factions of the PDP.

“A faction of the party aligned with the APC. There is no denying that there are factions in the party. The party itself admits that and the law is clear in a case where there is a division in the party, the constitution is clear on that.”

He said: “One is the direction the nation is going. You can see the level of impunity in the country. You can see the level of corruption in the country. Our economic growth is stagnated.

“The second reason is for those of us from Rivers State, politics is a game of interests. Different incentives drive different actions. Different incentives can premeditate different outcomes.”

Hon. Peterside represents Andoni-Opobo/Nkoro in Rivers State.

“We were watching as the PDP, which is the facilitator of our democracy at our instance, began to work against Rivers’ interest. It was no longer tolerable for us to remain on such a platform,” he added

PDP Moves To Declare APC Lawmakers Seats Vacant