*Pix above(l-r): PBAT and PDP
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Despite Nigerian President Tinubu’s intervention in the ongoing political brouhaha in Rivers State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Thursday called his bluff and insisted that the 26 Rivers House of Assembly lawmakers who left the party for the All Progressives Congress, APC, were no longer members of the state legislature.
–The two arrowheads of the brouhaha(l-r): Gov Simi Fubara and Ezenwo Nyesom Wike
PDP National Legal Adviser, Adeyemi Ajibade, SAN, told this to newsmen shortly after Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, adjourned the embattled lawmakers’ suit until Jan. 24, 2024.
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Ajibade said though President Bola Tinubu might have waded in the dispute between the Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, the party stood on what the constitution says on defection. We dont need to be enmeshed in grand political deceit.
“PDP as a party, stands on the side of the constitution of the country.
“It is not about issues of an agreement because by the constitution, we all swore to uphold it.
“The governor himself swore to uphold the constitution likewise the president.
“I am not against the president, calling for the resolution of the matter. He is the chief security officer of this country and he has every right to intervene in the issue, but not intervention predicated on grand political deceit.”
According to the senior lawyer, aside from that, the constitution of the country is very clear; Section 109 (1g) is clear as to issues of detection.
He added that the affected lawmakers had not denied that they had not detected, prompting the need to do the right thing./PLEASE SHARE
