NDC, APM face fresh crisis as legal adviser risks jail term over alleged dual membership

The Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, and Allied Peoples Movement, APM, mightiness beryllium deed by a caller situation arsenic its National Legal Adviser, Barr. Reuben Egwuaba, allegedly holds dual rank successful some absorption parties.

In a papers seen by DAILY POST astatine the weekend, Egwuaba holds the presumption successful some parties, according to records with the Independent National Electoral Commission. The development, according to electoral betterment advocates, runs contrary to the country’s revised Electoral Act.

Checks by DAILY POST connected the INEC website, www.inecnigeria.org, corroborate that Egwuaba is listed arsenic the National Legal Adviser for some APM and NDC.

Reacting, activistic Julius Aondowase, successful a connection connected Sunday, said Egwuaba’s dual rank is not a clerical oversight. It is simply a superior ineligible contradiction with acold reaching implications.

“By virtuousness of the amended electoral provisions, peculiarly the modification of Section 77, belonging to much than 1 governmental enactment astatine the aforesaid clip is expressly prohibited. The instrumentality is wide and uncompromising: any...