PDP slams LP MP sacked over protests in Abia
The Peoples Democratic Party Abia (PDP) in Abia State has criticized the immediate past Labor MP representing Aba North Constituency, Destiny Nwagwu, for protesting her removal by the Court of Appeal.
Nwagwu was removed from office on Monday by the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos for failing to provide evidence of his membership in the Labor Party before the election.
The PDP in a statement signed by the party’s Vice-Chairman and Acting Publicity Secretary, Abraham Ama, on Monday night claimed that the protests by former members in the streets of Aba could incite the people.
The PDP argued that the lawmaker should have accepted the judgment in good faith instead of asking Aba residents to resist it.
“This is not the first time this has happened, and it is Labor’s character to selectively accept the court’s decisions, rejecting and ridiculing the court whenever there is a case against it.
“This attitude is unacceptable and an affront to the judiciary, which is the last hope of the common people and one of the strongest safeguards of our democracy. All rational thinking and lovers of democracy We must boldly condemn this atrocity,” the PDP statement read in part.
Nwagwu, a former Deputy Majority Leader of the Abia State House of Assembly, lamented the Court of Appeal’s decision, describing it as a “miscarriage of justice.” He claimed that the Aba North constituency had been stripped of its mandate.
Source: dailypost.ng