Ahead of the legal battle instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a Federal High Court, Abuja aimed at declaring the seats of the five governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) vacant; the APC has said it is ready to battle PDP in court.

In an interview with the party’s interim national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, he said: “We are not going to preempt anything. We are still studying it. But we saw it coming,” he said.

In an earlier interview with Sunday Independent, professor of virology and former minister of petroleum, Tam David-West said it would be difficult for any court to grant the request of the PDP. “They cannot do it. PDP cannot declare any seat of a governor that defect vacant. I refer to section 68 and section 109 of the constitution.

It’s clear that if there is division within the party and certain members of that party felt that they don’t agree with what the party is doing, they can go to any party and still maintain their tenure till the end. Originally, it was meant for only governors.

Then the lawmakers also wanted to be part of it, so they amended it for the lawmakers too.

“They (G7) are very clever. They first established that there is a faction. They created the faction and stayed long enough, thereby they are protected by the constitution.  The moment they left, they never said they have created a new party.

They stayed and always said they were members of new PDP.  They are very clever,” he said.