Court Sacks Akwa Ibom Senator for Defecting from PDP Alex Enumah in Abuja The Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the senator representing Akwa Ibom North East district, Albert Akpan, over his defect
The Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the senator representing Akwa Ibom North East district, Albert Akpan, over his defection, last year, from the Peoples Democratic Party .
The judge ordered Akpan to stop parading himself as a senator and ordered him to pay N5 million in costs to PDP which sued him over his defection to the YPP. Akpan defected from the PDP in July 2022 citing unresolved grievances from the party’s governorship primary election in Akwa Ibom State. It was presented in court among other exhibits, Akpan’s letter of resignation from the party. The letter dated 15 July 2022 was sent to the chairman of the PDP in his Ibiono Ibom Eastern Ward I in Ibiono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Ariekamauwen Asuquo.
But the judge held that the argument was “misconceived”, adding that “there is nothing in the provision of section 68 of the constitution that expressly provides that it is only the persons stated in the referenced section that can give effect to the provision of section.” The judge, according to Premium Times, held that the self-contradiction in the Senate President’s affidavit had destroyed all the facts stated in it.
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