Defection To APC: PDP Asks Court To Sack Dogara From House

Defection To APC: PDP Asks Court To Sack Dogara From House
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has sued Yakubu Dogara at a Federal High Court in Abuja asking that he should be sacked from the House of Representatives.

The suit which is before Justice Okon Abang and was meant to be heard on December 7 was asking the court to sack Dogara for leaving the party when there was no crisis in the party.

Dogara is a former Speaker of the House who currently represents Dass/Tafawa Balewa/Bogoro federal constituency of Bauchi State at the House was re-elected to represent the constituency at the house during the 2019 general election under the platform of the PDP. But in July, 2020, Dogara dumped the PDP and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

PDP, not being comfortable with the development, is praying the court to order Dogara to vacate the seat since he had defected from the party that sponsored his re-election to the House of Reps.

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The plaintiffs, the PDP and its Bauchi State Chairman, Hamza Koshe, in their suit said among other things that by virtue of Section 68(1)(g) of the constitution, Dogara ought to vacate the seat for defecting from the party that sponsored him to the 9th National Assembly before the expiration of his tenure.

According to the duo, Dogara no longer merits taking part in the activities of the House of Reps while still using the PDP ticket.

Defendants in the filed by the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Jibrin S. Jibrin, are Dogara, the House of Reps Speaker, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC.

The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Akuyam contended that there was no crisis or division in the first plaintiff, being the political platform by which the election of the first defendant (Dogara) as a serving member of the National Assembly was sponsored and from which he has defected to the fifth defendant (APC) before the expiration of the period for which he was elected. The case was rescheduled for hearing for March 5, 2021.

 

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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