Defections... Court tells 37 APC Reps to vacate seats
Our courts seem unable to deliver unbiased judgement. By this, therefore, the judge has ruled that there was never a PDP faction hence the judgement. Now what happens to those who defected to the PDP from the ‘other parties’?
Jan Hazo
naiyamd@gmail.com **************************** Let those who have ears listen very well; we are going back to how it started in the First Republic, before the military struck.
Bolaji Dairo
bolajidairoblues@yahoo.com **************************** This is “Daniel comes to judgment.” It is appalling that in Nigeria, politicians who are duly elected by their party can ditch the party at any point in time without caring about the party that brought them to power. The declaration of vacant seats formerly occupied by the 37 Reps by the Abuja court is quite in order. Let them go back to the grassroots and campaign for the seat under their new party. If they win, they can come back to the National Assembly as legislators of APC. In future, other politicians with similar intention to use one party and dump it for another will have to think twice. There is every need to sanitise the system and a situation where people, especially the elected ones, dump their parties at will after gaining a lot from them, should be checked and quickly too. Indeed, one man’s meat, they say, is another man’s poison.
Muhammad Muhammad
Yusif
muhammamadyusifmuhammad@gmail.com **************************** Why is it that the defection is now causing uproar? Since 1999 to date, elected representatives are moving to PDP. Now, because PDP is at the receiving end, it’s disturbing us.
Umar Ahmad
umaraaa20144@ymail.com **************************** Thirty-seven members decamped to APC because of lack of good leadership by the ruling party, the PDP. They joined the APC because they want to bring positive change to Nigeria and Nigerians! PDP has failed the nation; after 12 years nothing is working in the land that is full of milk and honey! No going back, change must done!
Abubakar Abubakar Lawal
lawalabakarabubakar@gmail.com **************************** Let APC take the governor of Bauchi and others to court so they can vacate their offices too, using this ‘judgment’ as precedence.
Musa Aliyu
fullmeshcputers@gmail.com **************************** Good, let it be a lesson to others as well. A party is not an attire that you throw away simply because you’ve seen a more colourful one! They should backdate it and ensure they refund taxpayers’ money paid to them since the defection; lawmakers that are ignorant of the laws they are voted to uphold and enact!
Brian
afriman007@yahoo.com **************************** But the offence is also called “defection”. Do we have different punishments for same offence, depending on where the offender belongs? Where is our law of judicial precedence? It means all those who have acted in a similar fashion must be affected by the same kind of verdict. Otherwise, it is a mockery of our judicial system as the application of the law becomes the subject of who is involved. Yuguda and a host of others who have defected from other parties to PDP also have no business being where they are at the moment, because of the offence of defection, irrespective of their parties. Else, no law enforcement agent should attempt to enforce this judgement in the interest of fair play. The judge in this matter leaves a lot to be desired.
Shahid
shahidsolomon7@gmail.com **************************** The judgment is fair; it’s high time you packed out of the NASS.
Haruna
dalangisrael@yahoo.com