Court Sacks 16 Ebonyi Lawmakers Over Defection

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, ordered the 16 lawmakers from Ebonyi to vacate their seats after their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, ordered the lawmakers to stop parading themselves as representatives of the people after dumping the party on which platform they were elected into the house of assembly.

Some of the lawmakers include Odefa Obasi Odefa, Victor Chukwu, Kingsley Ikoro,  Joseph Ununu, Nkemka Okoro, among others.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Ekwo had, on Jan. 19, fixed today for the judgment in the suit filed by the PDP against the governor and his deputy.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that before the sack of the Ebonyi lawmakers that the court had earlier sacked Governor Dave Umahi and his deputy over their defection from the PDP on whose platform they were elected to the APC.

Justice Inyang Ekwo who gave the judgment held that the 393, 042 votes garnered by Umahi in the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Ebonyi state, belonged to the PDP and same could not be legally transferred to the APC by the process of defection.

He as such asked the PDP to immediately provide new nominees to fill the two positions or in the alternative that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to conduct a fresh election to fill the vacancies created by the defections.

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