The All Progressives Congress has reacted to the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party against it and its Caretaker Committee Chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni.
In a statement on Thursday by its spokesperson, John James Akpanudoedehe, the APC described the PDP as an ignominious rabble-rouser, saying that the suit by the opposition party would achieve no meaningful result.
First News reported that the PDP in a four-page originating summons filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, prayed the court to make Buni appear before it and defend whether or not he ceased to be governor of Yobe State by accepting to be the APC caretaker committee chairman.
But in its response, the APC spokesman said that the Supreme Court has already affirmed the status and legality of the Buni led caretaker committee of the party.
The statement read, “Our attention has been drawn to a purported court action sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni, Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and Governor of Yobe State.
“While we are constrained from and reluctant to comment on the PDP’s misplaced and frivolous court action because it will be sub judice, the PDP leadership is obviously executing a desperate and poorly-scripted propaganda plot aimed at deflecting attention from the crisis of confidence the failed opposition party faces.
“The PDP is an ignominious rabble-rouser and has no locus to take any action on the internal affairs of the APC.
“The Supreme Court has already affirmed the status and legality of the CECPC and that is all there is to it.
“There are clearly spelled out punitive measures against abuse of court processes. We are confident that the Judiciary will apply these measures fully.”