NASS Leadership : APC dragged to court over exclusion of South-East vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
ABUJA – An advocacy group under the aegis of Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, on Thursday, went before the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge decision of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to zone the leadership of the National Assembly in a manner that would exclude the South East region of the country.
Specifically, the Plaintiffs, through their lawyer, Mr. Okere Nnamdi, are praying the court to determine; “Whether the 1st Defendant , can ignore the express provisions of Section 224 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in zoning/determining which of the six geo-political zones in Nigeria produces the presiding and principal officers of the 9th National Assembly comprising of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
“A declaration of the honourable court that the decision of the 1st defendant to zone/cede the office of the Senate President to the North East, Deputy Senate President to South-South; and Speaker of the House of Representatives to the South west and Deputy Speaker to North Central and thereby totally excluding/obliterating/annihilating the South east geo-political zone in the political arithmetic of Nigeria breaches the express provisions, spirit and tenor of sections 14 and and 244 of the...
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