{"id":115594,"date":"2024-12-06T23:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=115594"},"modified":"2024-12-06T23:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:36:32","slug":"ibori-suenus-defection-pdp-declares-seat-vacant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ibori-suenus-defection-pdp-declares-seat-vacant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibori-Suenu\u2019s Defection: PDP Declares Seat Vacant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1817712627707434242\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) @OfficialPDPNig demands that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) @inecnigeria immediately commence processes to conduct a fresh election to fill the Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives which automatically became vacant by reason of the defection of Hon. Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu to the All Progressives Congress (APC). @OfficialAPCNg<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1817712627707434242-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is settled in law that by her defection from the PDP, the political Party platform upon which she was elected into the House of Representatives, Hon. Ibori-Suenu willfully vacated the Ethiope East\/Ethiope West Federal Constituency seat thus rendering it vacant by virtue of the self-executory provision of Section 68 (1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For clarity, Section 68 (1) of the 1999 Constitution provides that \u201ca member of the Senate or House of Representatives\u00a0 shall vacate his seat in the House\u00a0 of which he is a member if \u2026 (g) being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political Party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With this unambiguous Constitutional provision and its clear interpretation by the Supreme Court, Hon. Ibori-Suenu has irredeemably lost her seat, rights, privileges, recognition and obligations accruable to a member of the House of Representatives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hon. Ibori-Suenu @HONIboriSuenu should therefore stop parading herself as a member of the House of Representatives as such would amount to impersonation with likely criminal consequences. The PDP calls on the National Assembly Sergeant-at-Arms to note that Hon. Ibori-Suenu has ceased to be a member of the House of Representatives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PDP is communicating to INEC to, within the Constitutionally stipulated time, conduct fresh election to fill the vacancy which now exists in Ethiope East\/Ethiope West Federal Constituency of Delta State as a result of the defection of Hon. Ibori-Suenu to the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PDP also directs the National Legal Adviser to commence appropriate legal action to ensure that the votes and mandate of the people of Ethiope East\/Ethiope West Federal Constituency of Delta State, which they freely gave to the PDP are protected and not appropriated by any person or any other political party under any guise or circumstance whatsoever.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Signed:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hon. 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