FCT, Abuja – The Domestic Transparency Watch on Tuesday, June 11, urged the Rivers state government to reject a court ruling reinstating 26 lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The group’s president, Adam Biu, said in a statement that the lawmakers’ defection violated Section 109(1)(g) and (2) of Nigeria’s constitution.
TimesNow.com.ng reported that a Rivers state high court, Port Harcourt division, dismissed the suit seeking to declare the 25 lawmakers’ seats vacant on Monday, June 10.
However, Biu urged Governor Siminalayi Fubara to challenge the judgment.
Meanwhile, the group also joined calls for the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the judgment.
Meanwhile, the Fubara-led Rivers state government earlier described the reports of the court ruling on the 26 lawmakers as misleading and false.
The Attorney-General of the state and Commissioner for Justice, Dagogo Israel Iboroma, said the suit before the court did not seek to declare the lawmakers vacant.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
