A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked lawmakers in Ebonyi
State on account of their unlawful defection from the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The court declared their defection unlawful,
unconstitutional, null and void and ordered them to immediately vacate their
offices.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a separate judgment in a suit by the
PDP on Tuesday, ordered the Speaker of the House of Assembly and his
co-defectors to immediately stop parading themselves as members of Ebonyi State
House of Assembly.
He held that the votes that brought them to office belonged
to the PDP and that the legislators cannot hold on to the votes having elected
to defect from the party that nominated them.
Justice Ekwo also held that the votes cast for PDP in the
2019 election are not transferrable to the APC that failed in the election.
It restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) from recognizing or according any recognition to them as elected members
of the House of Assembly.
Justice Ekwo ordered that all monies collected from the top
period of their defection to the judgment date must be recovered from them.
Details shortly.
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