Twenty members of Cross River State House of Assembly of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, were sacked by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday.
The lawmakers defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the country.
The court declared that the lawmakers, having abandoned the political party that sponsored them to power, ought to vacate their seats.
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Justice Taiwo Taiwo gave the judgment in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021, which was filed by the PDP.
He said, ”The action of the 5th to the 25th Defendants is feeble and constitutes an attempt to pull wool over the eyes of the court.
“Their counter affidavit is manifestly defective,” Justice Taiwo held.
He, therefore, granted all the reliefs sought by the PDP, warning politicians to know that power belongs to the citizens.
