An FCT High Court sitting in Bwari has restrained Senate President Bukola Saraki from declaring the seat of former Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio vacant.
Justice Othman Musa also ordered Saraki not to impede Senator Akpabio’s access to the Senate building or take any action aimed at “overreaching his privileges and rights as a Senator pending the determination of the originating Summons of the applicant.”
The orders were made after an application by Akpabio’s lawyers, Chikaosolu Ojukwu and Ebere Ahanonu seeking to stop moves to declare his seat vacant following his defection from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The suit has been adjourned to August 29 for further hearing.
If the president of the Senate decamp from the party that voted him as Senate president and still occupied his set. I think, if it is not right, then both of them should resign, for justice to be real. Thanks
He should declare his own seat vacant first
Haba saraki,you also decamp from APC toPDP WHY not declare your own seat vacate?
Senator Akpabio resigned while Saraki did not. So Akpabio’s seat as a minority leader is already vacant without officially declaring it