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By Madu Obi
The leadership of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, has threatened legal action against the senator representing Anambra South, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah for dumping the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
The party's National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Egbeola Wale Martins, said in a statement that Ubah must be prepared to face the consequences of dumping the party that sponsored him to the Senate.
According to Martins, Ubah would not be allowed to flicker away YPP's mandate for selfish reasons, warning that the noble thing for him to do is to retrace his steps.
He cited Section 68 of the 1999 Constitution ( as amended) which states that "A member shall vacate his seat, being a person whose election to the house was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored ”.
Martins faulted Ubah’s claim of irreconcilable differences within the YPP as the reason for his defection and advised him not to cry wolf where there is none.
He said: “Reality and facts do not magically cease to exist just because the facts offend us, hence there is no need de-marketing our party at the expense of millions of our followers."
“If for anything, the leadership of our great party has been consistent in supporting not just Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, but all candidates who ran and won elections on our platform and will continue to do so provided they do not waver in keeping faith with the party.”
He added that the party has declared its readiness to explore all available options within the ambit of the law to call him to order.
He condemned what he described as APC’s penchant for scavenging political parties in an attempt to make Nigeria a one-party state, urging the President Bola Tinubu-led APC government to concentrate more on solving the nation’s myriad of challenges rather than the desperate suffocation of opposition political parties.
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