The
Peoples Democratic Party has asked an Abuja Federal High Court to sack
its five governors who recently defected to the All Progressives
Congress.
The governors are Alhaji Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Rotimi
Amaechi (Rivers), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano) and
Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara).
The Independent National Electoral
Commission was also listed as a defendant in the suit filed on behalf
of the PDP by Alex Izinyon (SAN).
In the suit, the ruling party
argued that the governors should be sacked on the grounds that by
their defection, they had forfeited their offices.
In the event
that the governors are sacked from office, PDP wants the court to order
the deputy governors or speakers of their state Houses of Assembly
to assume their positions.
The PDP asked the court for several
reliefs, among which, is a declaration that by the combined provisions
of sections 177 (c), 221 and 222 (c) of the 1999 Constitution, the
governors could not continue to enjoy the mandate given to it (PDP) by
the people/electorate as they (governors) had defected to another
political party.
The court was also requested by the PDP to
make a declaration that in the absence of any division in the PDP, the
governors had vacated or forfeited their seats upon their defection to
the APC.
Also, the FHC was asked to make a declaration that, by
the combined provisions of sections 87 of the Electoral Act 2011 (as
amended), and sections 177 (c), 221 and 222 (c) of the 1999
Constitution, the offices of the governors had reverted to the PDP.
It
also wants the court to make a declaration that, by the combined
provisions of sections 177 (c), 221 and 222 (c) of the 1999
Constitution, upon the defection of the governors, the mandates revert
to the deputy governors or the speakers of Houses of Assembly of the
respective states or any other officers next in rank who are still
members of the PDP.
The PDP demanded a declaration that by the
combined provisions of sections 177 (c), 221 and 222 (c) of the 1999
Constitution, the act of defection by the governors from the party, on
whose platform they were elected, amounted to gross misconduct.
The
party, in the same vein, asked the court to make an order
mandating/directing the Houses of Assembly of Adamawa, Rivers, Sokoto,
Kano and Kwara states to commence impeachment proceedings against the
governors.
Friday, 13 December 2013
Defection: PDP asks court to sack Amaechi, others
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