INEC’s derecognition of ADC leaders ‘utterly self-inflicted’ — APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the derecognition of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) leaders, Senator David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was “utterly self-inflicted.”

Speaking on News Central on Thursday, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, dismissed allegations that the ruling party had a hand in the development, insisting that the opposition created its own problems.

“As I’ve always maintained, we are only concerned about our level of preparation and the effort we are making. We’re concerned about ourselves. It is the opposition that is obsessed about what APC does,” Morka said.

He added that the APC was not involved in the internal crisis within the ADC, which led to INEC’s decision.

“Even the most recent development that everyone is talking about, the INEC decision to derecognize the David Mark executive, that was utterly self-inflicted. APC didn’t do that. APC did not orchestrate the hijack of the ADC by that executive, we didn’t,” he stated.

Morka argued that the crisis stemmed from alleged disregard for the party’s constitution by the affected leadership.

“They did that, completely ignoring the rule of law, ignoring the constitution of the party they were putting themselves into. The party had a constitution about succession. So when you parachute into the party, you take over without reference to the constitutional stipulation about succession on how leadership is ordered in that party, this is the consequence,” he said.

He maintained that those now criticising the APC were responsible for the situation.

“This was exactly made, manufactured by the same people who are complaining now and pointing fingers at the APC. We’re not concerned about all of that,” Morka added.

INEC had earlier removed the names of Mark and Aregbesola from its portal as national chairman and national secretary of the ADC, respectively.

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