Umeh Claims PMP Is Being Used To Frustrate NDC’s 2027 Election Plans

The lawmaker representing the Anambra Central Senatorial District, Victor Umeh, has said that the Peace Movement Party, PMP, was being used to prevent the participation of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, in the 2027 general elections.

Umeh made the allegation on Monday when he was a guest on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ interview.

The victory-sign logo is a global symbol and does not belong to the PMP, he said.

“PMP is preventing NDC from participating in the 2027 Elelection.

“When Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso and some of us joined the NDC on May 3, the following day, May 4, an application was filed to set aside the registration of the party, even though the NDC had been registered for about five months.

“The logo does not belong to the PMP as it is not a registered political party. In the registration of a party, a symbol ceases to be a symbol of a party and becomes exclusive to that party once registered with INEC.

“After that, it is legally the property of the registered party and no other political party can use it,” he said.

Recall that a Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, had set aside its earlier judgment directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to register the NDC as a political party.