Governors
elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged the
leadership of the House of Representatives to urgently declare the seats of the
37 federal lawmakers, who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress,
APC, vacant, if they failed to return.House of Representatives during
plenaryThe governors, who met in Dutse, Jigawa State, Tuesday night under the
aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, also urged delegates at the on-going National
Conference to work towards the unity and interest of Nigeria, and hailed
President Goodluck Jonathan for convening the conference.In a text message at
the end of the meeting, the governors commended the judiciary for its
judgement, but warned that members who defected to APC should respect the rule
of law.It will be recalled that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had asked
the 37 former members of PDP to resign their seats at the House of
Representatives for defecting to APC.The court perpetually restrained the
legislators from effecting any leadership change in the National Assembly.The
presiding judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who held that the lawmakers no longer
had any business morally and legally in the assembly, asked them to honourably
resign their seats as members of the House of Representatives, having moved to
another political party while their tenure had yet to expire.“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,” the judge added.The PDP governors
also congratulated Senator Iyiola Omisore and Chief Ayo Fayose for emerging the
party’s flag-bearers in the forthcoming governorship elections in Osun and
Ekiti states respectively.They also resolved to hold the next PDP governors’
meeting in Bauchi on May 8 & 9, 2014Governors
elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, urged the
leadership of the House of Representatives to urgently declare the seats of the
37 federal lawmakers, who dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress,
APC, vacant, if they failed to return.House of Representatives during
plenaryThe governors, who met in Dutse, Jigawa State, Tuesday night under the
aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, also urged delegates at the on-going National
Conference to work towards the unity and interest of Nigeria, and hailed
President Goodluck Jonathan for convening the conference.In a text message at
the end of the meeting, the governors commended the judiciary for its
judgement, but warned that members who defected to APC should respect the rule
of law.It will be recalled that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had asked
the 37 former members of PDP to resign their seats at the House of
Representatives for defecting to APC.The court perpetually restrained the
legislators from effecting any leadership change in the National Assembly.The
presiding judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who held that the lawmakers no longer
had any business morally and legally in the assembly, asked them to honourably
resign their seats as members of the House of Representatives, having moved to
another political party while their tenure had yet to expire.“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,” the judge added.The PDP governors
also congratulated Senator Iyiola Omisore and Chief Ayo Fayose for emerging the
party’s flag-bearers in the forthcoming governorship elections in Osun and
Ekiti states respectively.They also resolved to hold the next PDP governors’
meeting in Bauchi on May 8 & 9, 2014
These PDP leaders , as they call themselves , are set of mad contractors. They should avail themselves the opportunity to get a veritable copy of the judgement and see if there is any part that ordered the house leadership to declear the seat of defected Repa vacant. PDP is dead and buried . Nigerian are yearning for change , no going back.
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