PDP drags Speaker, 20 Kwara lawmakers to court for defecting to APC

Click banner for more info

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has sued the Speaker, Razak Atunwa, and 20 other members of the Kwara State House of Assembly to court over their defection to the All Progressives Congress.

In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Ilorin, on Friday, the state chapter of the PDP and a suspended member of the assembly, Iliasu Ibrahim, prayed the court to declare the seats of the 21 lawmakers vacant.   The plaintiffs joined the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as a defendant in the suit Number FHC/IL/C5/4/2014.
Continue...