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They have lost their rights to remain members of the assembly,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the case of Adetunde and the Labour Party, the Supreme Court made it clear that you cannot decamp and then remain a member of a legislative house in Nigeria unless you can show that there is a division in your party. Today, the PDP is one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crisis bedeviling the oil-rich State took a new turn last week when some of the lawmakers elected Victor Oko-Jumbo as the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Oko-Jumbo who represents the Bonny constituency was elected by the lawmakers said to be loyal to Governor Fubara. Although the number of persons who picked him as the speaker is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Falana, has, however, said that the lawmakers need a quorum to elect a speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, we have to look at the Constitution. Before the House can conduct proceedings, the House must form a quorum to conduct the business of the House, and a quorum in the Constitution is defined,\u201d Falana said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you want to remove the governor by way of impeachment, again you must have a two-thirds majority of the legislature. This is very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal luminary cited cases where the Supreme court had ruled that it&#8217;s illegal for lawmaker to dump a political party on whose platform he was elected. 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