Defection: Court Adjourns Suit Seeking To Sack Saraki, Dogara, 52 Others To April 30 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 19, 2019
An Abuja High Court has adjourned until April 30th, a suit seeking the sack of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and fifty two other lawmakers.
An advocacy group, Legal Defence and Assistance Project, LEDAP dragged the lawmakers to court seeking a declaration that they were no longer members of the National Assembly, having defected to other political parties before the expiration of their tenure.
The defendants comprise seventeen Senators, thirty seven members of the House of Representatives, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the clerks to both chambers.
At the resumed hearing, when parties were called to make their submissions, counsel to LEDAP Jubrin Okutepa, SAN, argued that the case of whether a politician who moved from one party to another should retain his/her seat had been decided by the Supreme Court.
Okutepa maintained that the defendants said they defected because there were divisions and crises in their political parties.