The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the derecognition of African Democratic Congress (ADC) leaders by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as “utterly self-inflicted.”
Speaking on News Central, on Thursday, APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, denied any involvement by the ruling party, insisting the opposition created its own crisis.
“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.
Reacting to INEC’s removal of David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola from its portal, Morka stated: “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 attributed the crisis to alleged disregard for the party’s constitution: “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.”
Morka maintained that those criticising APC are 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.”