BY NONYE EKWENUGO
Kaduna
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), North-west zone has promised Nigerians of its commitment to strictly adhere to the code of conduct as stipulated in the Electoral Act, maintaining that it will not involve in any form of character assassination during the campaigns.
The Zonal Secretary of the party, Hon. Bello Muhammad who asserted this on Saturday at the Zonal party’s Secretariat in Kaduna said that its campaigns will be issue-based, and not attacking other political parties or their candidates.
Muhammad, while addressing the press averred that 25 out of the 36 cases against the party at the law court, arising from the pre-election matters have been won in favour of the party in the zone.
” Some of these cases involved members of our party against another member, while others are inter-party issues. But, just like I said earlier, 25 cases have been won with the combinations of reconciliation mechanism and court verdicts.
“We are still not relenting towards ensuring that other pending cases are settled out of court, using the reconciliation mechanism. As a progressive party, we don’t want to see any of our member pursuing any court case against one another.
“Today, due to the party’s leadership efforts, on the average, we have 10 to 11 cases pending at the court, and this is a plus to the party in view of the number of cases that the party had earlier. As a party, our responsibility is to unite our members, and that is exactly what we are doing to ensure that our members are united.” the Zonal Secretary explained.
Speaking on the court case against the Kaduna State gubernatorial candidate of the party, Senator Uba Sani, the Zonal Secretary, also explained that the party is working very hard to see that the case is settled out of court.
Also speaking, the Director Legal Services, Sanusi Samaila, who represented the National Legal Adviser of the party, Ahmad Usman El-marquk, explained that the party will be guided against abusing the provision of the Electoral Act.
