According to the Punch, the court ruled that the claimant failed to prove that the 27 lawmakers truly defected to the APC. The court said a defection can only be established through the party membership register, a membership card and such members fulfilling all requirements of their membership in the party.
However, speaking in an interview on New Central TV, Sogbeye Eli said Amaewhule and the 26 other lawmakers defected openly to the APC and nobody could have said they are still PDP members. He said that the constitution did not provide that certain steps must be taken or that the membership register of a political party must be provided before a defection is deemed to be valid.
He said: “Nobody could have said they are still members of the PDP. They defected in the open.
And the constitution did not say you must take step one, step two before a defection is deemed to be valid. No. I stand to be corrected. It’s not in any part of the constitution that for a defection to be valid for instance in the case of Amaewhule against the House of Assembly that they have to bring the Labour Party register before the court, and then bring the one of AC of those days before the court agreed that the man has defected to the AC. No that’s not the law.
If you defect from a political party upon which platform you are elected to another while your tenure is still subsisting, that’s what the law says, you will lose your seats.”READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>