Court Sacks 15 Ebonyi Lawmakers For Defecting to APC

 

15 members of the Ebonyi House of Assembly, including the Speaker have been sacked by the Federal High Court in Abuja and their seats declared vacant.

 

The lawmakers had defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

 

Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Tuesday, held that their defection was unlawful and that having abandoned that political party on which platform they stood election, they could no longer occupy the seats.

 

Justice Ekwo declared their seats vacant and restrained them from further parading themselves in the capacity of members of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly.

 

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