Defection: After 20 Lawmakers Sacked, Court Fixes Date For Gov Ayade To Know His Fate
Information reaching Naija News House says that After 20 Lawmakers Sacked, Court Fixes Date For Gov Ayade To Know His Fate
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court will deliver judgment in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River.
The PDP, through its counsel Emmanuel Ukala, had filed the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021 before Justice Taiwo Taiwo to seek an order sacking the governor and his deputy over their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC), among others.
It was gathered on Tuesday from Court 7 that judgment in the suit would come up on March 25.
On Monday, the judge ordered two House of Representatives members representing Cross River and 18 lawmakers from the state’s House of Assembly to vacate their seats over their defection to APC.
The judge gave the order following a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/971/2021 filed on August 27, 2021, by the PDP to challenge the 20 lawmakers’ defection to APC, alongside the governor on May 20, 2021.
Mr Taiwo ruled that the argument of the lawmakers that there was rancour in the PDP, which necessitated their defection to APC, was a ploy to mislead the co
