How APC deceived DPP—Vice Chair

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Relying on section 225A-Alteration 4 of the 1999 constitution as amended&comma; which empowers the Independent National Electoral Commission&comma; INEC to deregister political parties&comma; the Commission embarked on deregistration exercise just after the 2019 general elections&period; By the time it was done&comma; 74 out of the then existing 92 political parties were deregistered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Political parties that survived the sledge hammer are&colon; Social Democratic Party &lpar;SDP&rpar;&comma; All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar;&comma; Peoples Democratic Party &lpar;PDP&rpar;&comma; All Progressives Grand Alliance &lpar;APGA&rpar;&comma; Accord Party&comma; &lpar;AP&rpar; Action Alliance &lpar;AA&rpar;&comma; African Action Congress &lpar;AAC&rpar;&comma; African Democratic Congress &lpar;ADC&rpar;&comma; African Democratic Party &lpar;ADP&rpar; and Allied Peoples Movement &lpar;APM&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Others include&colon; Labour Party &lpar;LP&rpar;&comma; New Nigeria Peoples Party &lpar;NNPP&rpar;&comma; National Rescue Movement &lpar;NRM&rpar;&comma; Peoples Redemption Party &lpar;PRP&rpar;&comma; Young Progressives Party and Zenith Labour Party &lpar;ZLP&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Expectedly&comma; INEC’s action was received with mixed reactions of both commendations and condemnations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">But one political party that seems disturbed in all of this is the Democratic Peoples Party&comma; DPP&period; The worry is not entirely about how INEC stuck to their guns on the deregistration game plan but the deceit that came from the All Progressives Congress&comma; APC after DPP threw its weight behind its victories at both the governorship and presidential poll&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In an exclusive chat with OpenLife&comma; <em>national vice chairman and South West chairman of DPP&comma; <&sol;em>&nbsp&semi;Captain <em>Tony Oyekan Aliu&comma;<&sol;em> ret’d explained how APC reneged on earlier promise to accommodate its members through appointments &nbsp&semi;after the elections&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We supported APC’s governorship and presidential elections&period; Till date&comma; they reneged on the promise they made to us&period; Not even one appointment has been extended to DPP&period; We have told our members to remain calm while we work out options in the coming elections&comma;” Tony declared&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The 1983 retired soldier&comma; who has been involved in wholesale farming in cocoa and palm oil&comma; reiterated its displeasure by vowing to throw its weight behind any party that approaches it with mutually benefitting conditions&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The APC as a government is not meeting the yearnings of the people&period; The reasons for change of government from PDP to APC have not been validated&period; As a farmer&comma; I am not getting supports from government&period; The government has not been able to secure the environment for business to strive&period; Therefore&comma; our decisions as a party will reflect these realities as we inch towards 2023&comma;” he vows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;