Imo: You have lost your seats – PDP tells members who defected to APC
DAILY POST had reported that the Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Chiji Collins, alongside seven other members from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
PDP, however, urged Independent National Electoral Commission to begin a process of conducting a fresh election to elect new representatives for the constituencies. ”The defectors have indeed shown absolute lack of character, failure of leadership capacity in moments of challenges and absence of faith to stand with the people in their most trying moment, but are easily bought by personal pecuniary and political interests.
”For the avoidance of doubt, section 109 provides that “a member of the House of Assembly SHALL VACATE his seat in the House if … being a person whose election to the House of Assembly by a political party Official PDP Nigeria, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected:
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