Over 40 Nigerian lawmakers are likely to vacate their seats for concurrent membership of the National Assembly and ECOWAS Parliament as well as the Pan-African Parliament, if a suit filed against them succeeds.
The suit was filed by the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, a non governmental organisation that seeks to promote transparency and accountability in governance through public interest litigations, advocacy, policy engagements. The body had earlier called on the President of the Senate to declare the seats of the affected lawmakers vacant for belonging to multiple parliament's at the same time and collecting emoluments from all.
In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, ALDRAP asks the court to determine whether having regard to Section 68 of the 1999 Constitution , any member of the National Assembly who wishes to take a seat at the ECOWAS Parliament and/or the Pan-African Parliament, ought to first resign from the National Assembly.
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