A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki has sacked the senator representing Ebonyi South Senatorial District Sonni Ogbuoji from his position and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh election with immediate effect.
He said: “Section 68g says that a member of Senate or House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House if being a person whose election to the house was sponsored by another political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that house was elected.
The petitioners had sued Ogbuoji and INEC asking the court to declare Ogbuoji’s seat vacant for defecting to the APC when there was no crisis or division in the PDP. He noted that the crisis in the party was finally resolved in July 2017 by the Supreme Court but that before then, he had resigned his membership of the party via a letter he submitted to the PDP Secretary of his Ebunwana Ward, one Ukpo Regina Agwu in January 27, 2017.
“There is no basis to attach any probative or evidential value to the said exhibits. What that means is that the defendant’s claim of resignation is shrouded in inconsistency, contradiction and suspicion,” the judge said.
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