A Federal High Court sitting
in Abuja yesterday ordered
the 37 members of the
House of Representatives
who defected from the
Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives
Congress to vacate their
seats. It also gave an order of
perpetual injunction
restraining them from
altering the current
leadership composition of
the House. Delivering judgment in the
case, Justice Adeniyi
Ademola held that the
decamped lawmakers no
longer had any business,
morally and legally, to stay in the House. He said they should
honourably resign from
their seats as Reps
members, having moved to
another political party
when their tenure had not yet expired. Justice Ademola said:
“Having perused the
arguments of counsel and
the constitutional
provisions, it is clear and
unambiguous that the defendants were sponsored
by the PDP and won the
election on its platform. “It is also the court’s
opinion that their tenure
has not expired and there
is no division in the PDP.” He added: “The defendants
are, therefore, not
competent to vote or
contribute to any
proceedings in the House
of Representatives. “An order of perpetual
injunction is hereby
ordered, restraining them
from altering or
attempting to change the
leadership of the House of Representatives.” You would recall that the
PDP had, on January 7,
2014, instituted a suit
seeking to restrain the
House of Representatives
from altering the composition of its
leadership. The party had commenced
the action following the
decamping of the 37
lawmakers who won
election on its platform to
the opposition APC. The PDP’s counsel, Mr
Yunus Usman (SAN), had,
while arguing his
originating summons,
faulted the cross-carpeting
of the lawmakers, saying they did so during the
dependency of a judgment. He argued that by virtue of
the October 2013
judgment of Justice Evoh
Chukwu, which said there
was no division in the PDP,
the matter had been laid to rest. Counsel to the defendants,
Mr Mahmud Magaji (SAN),
had, in his submission,
argued that it was wrong
for the PDP to have sought
to restrain its former members from House
activities for defecting. Reacting to the judgement,
however, the APC Caucus in
the House of
Representatives said it
would challenge the ruling
of the court. The APC leader, Femi
Gbajabiamila, in a
statement titled “Court
Turned Law on its Head,
APC to Appeal Judgment,”
described the ruling as “a strange judgment that
turned law on its head.” Gbajabiamila argued that
the judgment was a
product of error of court
that the APC lawmakers
would be willing to appeal
at a higher court. He said: “The judgement is
strange and will be
appealed. No person can be
compelled by law to stay in
an association against his
or her wishes.” The APC leader argued that
the judgment was an
affront to right of
association of the
lawmakers. He said: “It negates a
fundamental right of
association of every citizen
that is inalienable. Section
68 of the Constitution has
been turned on its head and the error of the court is
manifest.”
source:scannewsnigeria.com/breaking-news/down-memory-lane-court-sacks-37-pdp-to-apc-defecting-reps/

hmmmm war

Is this true Na laugh i dey laugh o......
GEJ till 2019

Anyway as for.me jeg. should do everything inside and outside the law to make sure this angry people in Apc don't ever get power in Nigeria not now not in the future as for me I will prefer army take over than see them in the seat of power even though that's their plan B

APCs are too dull to remember this judgement.

The cheese master at work.

The chess master at work