Defection: What Saraki, Dogara, others told court ahead of May 7 judgement - Daily Post Nigeria

suit instituted against them and 52 others on account of their defection from their various political parties in 2018.

LEDAP, through its counsel, Jubrin Okutekpa had approached the court praying for an order to declare the seats of the defecting lawmakers vacant on the reason that there was no division in their parties when the defections were made. Magaji submitted that the advocacy body did not stand for either the All Progressives Congress , Peoples Democratic Party or any registered political party in the country or claimed to be a voter and as such has no legal status to have filed the case against them.

“Plaintiffs in this matter are either legislators, members of political parties or members of the constituencies where the senators emerged from. They are not executive of any political party and did not sponsor any candidate for any election and still they are not even registered voters of the constituencies of the defecting senators.

In his own submissions, counsel to defendants from the House of Representatives, Prof. Joash Amupitan SAN, drew the attention of the court to the fact that the defectors were from several States of the federation, adding that the crisis and divisions in the parties in 2018 was so fundamental and nationwide to the extent that the APC could not field candidate in Zamfara and Rivers States and urged the court to dismiss the case of the plaintiff.

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