Politics Defection: APC lawmakers lose bid to stop PDP from declaring seats vacant - Vanguard

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The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, declined to halt moves by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to declare the seats of all the fifty-one lawmakers that defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, vacant.

However, before striking out the suit that was filed before it by the lawmakers, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, stressed that in line with section 68(1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, only the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, have the statutory powers to sack the plaintiffs from office.

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Source: Vanguard Newspaper

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