The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to ignore the directive given him..
The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to ignore the directive given him by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami to provide security for 17 members of the Edo state House of Assembly.
The seven-member faction had since declared the 17 seats vacant and had called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct bye elections to fill their seats.At a media briefing in Abuja on Saturday, the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, described the directive of the AGF as thoughtless, unconstitutional, null, void and of no effect.
Continuing, the PDP spokesman said, “Furthermore, the Attorney General ought to have availed himself of the facts that the Edo State House of Assembly, as constitutionally constituted, had written to the Independent National Electoral Commission asking it to conduct fresh elections into the vacant seats in line with the provisions of our constitution and the Electoral Act.
The PDP said what Nigerians expected of the AGF was for him to advise the 17 lawmakers to wait for the ruling of the court and, perhaps, prepare for their bye-elections, if they still wish to be in the Edo State House of Assembly.
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