A judgment delivered by Justice Akintola Aluko of the Abakaliki Division of the Court held that Ogbuoji by defecting from the party on which platform he was elected to another party flouted section 68g of the 1999 constitution.
It also ordered the lawmaker to refund all monies be it salaries, allowances or any other form of payment he may have received as benefits as a Senator from the date of his defection, to the coffers of government.
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