Court sacks Ebonyi Senator, orders fresh poll - The Nation Newspaper

The Federal High Court has declared the Ebonyi South Senatorial District seat occupied by Sonni Ogbuoji vacant.Justice Akintola Aluko of the Abakaliki Division of the Court held that Ogbuoji by defecting from the party under whose platform he was elected to another party flouted section 68g of the 1999 constitution.

The judgement was in respect of suit number FHC/AI/CS/44/2018 filed by Evo Ogbonnaya Anegu, Oti Ama Ude, Uche Richard Ajali, Una Sunday Okoro and Simon Ajali Ogbadu for themselves and on behalf of the teaming members of the PDP in Ebonyi South Senatorial District. The plaintiffs in their postulations through their counsel, Barr Roy Umahi expressed worries that Ogbuoji’s conduct if not condemned and upturned would encourage political prostitution and legislative rascality and destroy the reasons for the laws made to regulate defections of National Assembly members by the constitution.

But the Plaintiffs countered by providing evidence that the said Regina Ukpo was not the Secretary of the Ward at the time the said letter was allegedly given to her as she had already been by expelled by the party on 23 January 2017. For example, the court noted that some of the documentary exhibits presented by the defence like signatures of Ukpo Regina Agwu, the erstwhile Ebunwana Ward Secretary, were found to be materially different in the various documents provided to the court.What that means is that the defendant’s claim of resignation is shrouded in inconsistency, contradiction and suspicion” , the judge said.

It also said that at the time of his defection there was no division or faction in the PDP to warrant such defection as permitted by section 68 g of the constitution.

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