“The constitution stipulates that you can only defect from one party to another, only when your party is in crisis or there are factions in your party, which makes it impossible for you to function effectively in your party and to the best of our knowledge, there is no faction in PDP.”
Youths in Ebonyi South Senatorial zone under the aegis of OHANIVO Youth forum, has called on the leadership of the Nigeria Senate to declare the seat of Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Sonni Ogbuorji, vacant for defecting from his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), without consulting them and the entire Ebonyi South senatorial zone where he represents.
The Youths in a communiqué issued after its General Assembly in Abakaliki, the state capital, on Saturday said the seat of Ogbuorji should be immediately declared vacant by the Senate because, according to them, the lawmaker did not follow the constitutionally stipulated procedures.
The communique which was signed by its National President, Comrade Raymond Okoro and 23 other executives, noted that if the Senate leadership fails to declare the seat of Ogbuorji vacant, they will have no option other than to seek judicial interpretation of constitutional provisions for defection and clarification of the mandates being held by National Assembly members.
“We call on the National Assembly Leadership to declare the seat of Ebonyi South Senatorial zone in the Senate vacant. Our Senator flagrantly displayed his non-challant attitude, disregard and disrespect for the constituency that gave him the majority of votes that accorded him the privilege of having the mandate on the platform of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and when he decamped to APC, he never consulted his constituents and did not follow the required condition as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria before defecting to the APC.
“The constitution stipulates that you can only defect from one party to another, only when your party is in crisis or there are factions in your party, which makes it impossible for you to function effectively in your party and to the best of our knowledge, there is no faction in PDP.
