: “You are not entitled to the honour you do not possess having taken the votes of your people to a political party they did not vote for.”
When I asked him to comment on the judgement, he retorted, “What do you want me to say? I lost my case. I lost my money.” The same Nzeribe crossed from NPP to PDP in 2002 or thereabout following which I recalled the 1983 case in an interview by the NTA, to the surprise of senators and embarrassment of Nzeribe. The Chairman of, Senate Information Committee, Senator Jonathan Zwingina, said he was never aware of the judgement until I exposed it.
But moral issues and the spirit of the Constitution are common to the two cases.
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