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BREAKING: Defected 27 Rivers Lawmakers’ Seat Declared Vacant

“In view of the vacancy now existing in the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State, the PDP demands that INEC should within the stipulated period under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) conduct a fresh election to fill the vacancies.

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Defected 27 Rivers Lawmakers’ Seat has been declared vacant.

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has demanded that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should immediately commence the process of conducting fresh elections into the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State.

 

This, the party said, was sequel to the vacancy created when “27 former (Rivers) state lawmakers” willfully abandoned their seats by defecting from to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

 

ALSO: Governor Fubara in fresh trouble as 27 out of the 32 Rivers Lawmakers Dump PDP for APC

 

National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, in a statement, in Abuja, on Monday said, “The PDP asserts that by defecting from the PDP, the political Party platform on which they were elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly, the seats of the respective 27 former lawmakers have become vacant by virtue of the provision of Section 109 (1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).”

 

 

He further said, “For the avoidance of doubt, Section 109 (1) of the 1999 Constitution provides that “a member of a House of Assembly shall vacate his seat in the House if … (g) being a person whose election to the House of Assembly was sponsored by a political Party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected…”

Ologunagba equally said, “By reason of the above Constitutional provision and its clear interpretation by the Supreme Court, the 27 defected members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have vacated and lost their seats, rights, privileges, recognition and obligations accruable to members of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

 

“The PDP therefore demands that the Speaker of the Rivers State House Assembly immediately comply with the provision of the Constitution by declaring the seats of the 27 former lawmakers vacant.

 

“In view of the vacancy now existing in the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State, the PDP demands that INEC should within the stipulated period under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) conduct a fresh election to fill the vacancies.

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