NDC reveals why Peter Obi, Kwankwaso will be exempted from anti-defection oath

The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, says its statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, and his moving mate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, volition not motion the party’s recently introduced anti-defection oath.

The party’s nationalist spokesman, Ikenna Enekweizu, revealed this connected Wednesday successful an interrogation connected ‘Politics Today’, a programme connected Channels Television.

Enekweizu defended the legality of the measure, noting that governmental parties relation arsenic voluntary associations and their members are strictly bound by interior rules and law provisions.

He besides dismissed criticisms that the oath violates the country’s crushed norm, stressing that the request to motion the affidavit is afloat backed by the NDC constitution.

According to him, the enactment enactment has chosen to workout administrative discretion to excuse its apical 2 standard-bearers from the mandate.

“The constitution says everybody moving nether the level of the enactment has to sign, but the enactment has taken the administrative determination that those re...