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The All Progressives Congress has applied to be join as a co-defendant in two pending suits in which the Peoples Democratic Party asked an Abuja Federal High Court to order the Senate President, David Mark, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to declare vacant the seats of 12 Senators and 42 members of the House of Representatives who defected to the party.

The PDP also asked the court to order the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately organise and conduct elections to fill the seats of the defected lawmakers.

The defected lawmakers have opposed the suits, asking the court to dismiss the applications filed by the PDP.

At the continuation of hearing on Thursday, the APC informed the court of its wish to be joined as a defendant alongside its new members in the National Assembly.

APCs request to be joined in the suits was contained in motions filed by its counsel, James Ocholi, SAN, which asked the court for an order granting leave to the All Progressive Congress to be joined as a co-defendant.

The party in the same vein asked the court to order the PDP to serve it with the originating processes in the two suits within 48 hours after being joined as a co-defendant.

Stating the grounds upon which it was asking the court to join it in the suit, the APC stressed that the defected lawmakers, who the PDP wants to sack from the National Assembly, are its members.

The defendants are members of the All Progressives Congress, the party the plaintiff alleges they have defected to, the party said.

The APC argued that justice demands that the party be joined as a party in the suits since the lawmakers are registered members of the party.

Also, in an affidavit in support of the motion, the APC insisted that the PDPs bid to sack the lawmakers would affect it because the seats currently occupied by the legislators in the National Assembly belonged to it.

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National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Mr. Maxi Okwu, has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission, asking it to afford it all necessary facilities to participate in the forthcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states.

In a letter dated April 14, 2014, signed by Okwu and Sagir Maidoya, Chairman and Secretary respectively, APGA urged INEC to respect the decisions of the courts, which ruled that the National Working Committee of the party, elected at the April 8, 2013 national convention of the party, was the authentic leadership of APGA.

The PUNCH got details of the letter on Tuesday.

It was entitled Demand for the formal recognition of the All Progressives Grand Alliance National Executive elected on 8th April 2013 at Womens Development Centre, Awka, Anambra State.

The letter further indicated that the striking out of the first application by the judgment debtors for stay of execution of the judgment of January 15, 2014 ends an important stage of this litigation.

It stated that when juxtaposed with the proceedings on April 8, 2014, at the Court of Appeal, we submit that we are now fully entitled to enjoy the fruits of our judgment.

It also stated that though the case was on appeal to the Court of Appeal, the law is settled that the decision of the court remains valid and must be complied with until it is set aside.

The APGA executive consequently informed INEC that we therefore with the greatest respect urge you as a law abiding organisation to immediately abide with the decision of the courts of the land.

It added that the urgency of this matter is heightened by the pendency of gubernatorial by-elections in Ekiti and Osun states and we would not want our party to suffer any legal disabilities in its nominations.

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The good news for progressives, including Madisons Democratic congressman, Mark Pocan, is that the budget proposal authored by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis, has almost no chance of becoming law anytime soon.

Although the Ryan budget narrowly passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives last week, it does not have the support necessary to get through the Democratic Senate and President Barack Obama would not sign it even if it did.

The bad news for progressives is that their alternative budget proposal has about the same chance of seeing the president's desk.

But the Congressional Progressive Caucus, made up of 67 liberal Democrats and one independent (Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont), is promoting its vision for American economic recovery and deficit reduction nonetheless.

The differences between Ryans budget and the progressive alternative display many of the age-old left-right debates over what the government should prioritize. Ryan seeks to balance the budget by reducing spending on entitlements and other social programs, while progressives aim to cut defense spending and raise revenue by increasing taxes on capital gains and incomes above $250,000.

The two proposals also reflect fundamentally different beliefs about how to generate economic growth.

Ryan believes that trimming spending on social programs and cutting taxes on the American investment class will lead to heightened economic activity, which will generate greater tax revenue.

He argues in supply-side fashion that lowering tax rates and plugging loopholes will produce more income, not less, conservative economist and columnist Larry Kudlow noted approvingly in 2012.

In contrast, progressives believe that New Deal-style spending on programs that deliver dollars directly to low and middle-income Americans food stamps, hiring more teachers is a more effective way to jump-start the economy and will ultimately lead to a balanced budget down the road.

Laura Dresser, an economist at the liberal Center on Wisconsin Strategy, explained the progressive approach: When youre in a down cycle and there is a lack of jobs, you need demand in the system and the only place that can come from is the government.

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