{"id":94102,"date":"2021-10-16T05:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T04:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=94102"},"modified":"2021-10-16T05:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T04:47:49","slug":"pdp-to-court-sack-zamfara-lawmakers-over-defection-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/16\/pdp-to-court-sack-zamfara-lawmakers-over-defection-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP to court: Sack Zamfara lawmakers over defection to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for a court order to join three senators, and 27 other lawmakers &#8211; all from Zamfara &#8211; in a suit against governor of the state, Bello Matawalle.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP via a suit<span class=\"s1\"> marked: FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/650\/2021 dated September 30, and filed through O.J. Onoja, its lawyer asked the court to sack Matawalle, the three senators, six house of representatives members and<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0lawmakers in the state house of assembly that defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recall that the<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0PDP had earlier listed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), APC, the senate president, speaker of the house of representatives, governor of Zamfara and chief judge of Zamfara as defendants in the suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The PDP had, therefore, sought the join Matawalle as the eighth defendant, since only his office was<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0sued in the earlier application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">PDP asked Inyang Ekwo, judge of the federal court, to join Mahdi Gusau, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/bandits-kill-five-soldiers-trying-to-repel-attack-on-travellers-in-zamfara\/\">Zamfara<\/a> deputy governor, as the second plaintiff in the suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The party also asked the court to determine whether the Zamfara governor and all the lawmakers who defected are eligible to continue to occupy their various political offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The party said the application was to ensure that \u201cthe ends of justice are not defeated by mere technical objections as to joinder of parties\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When the matter was called, Onoja notified the court about three motions he had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNumber one is a motion on notice for extension of time filed and served on September 28.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The second one is a motion for extension of time filed on October 12 and served,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The two motions were not opposed by lawyers to the defendants, and Onoja adopted them, after which they were granted by the judge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, when the lawyer to the PDP was about to move the motion seeking to join more respondents to the suit filed on September 30, Mike Ozekhome, counsel to the speaker of house of representatives, the governor and chief judge of Zamfara, countered the motion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ozekhome argued that the application filed since September 30 was only received three days ago, adding that\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">more time would be needed to study the motion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The judge, thereafter, adjourned the matter till November 2 for hearing of the motion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for a court order to join three senators, and 27 other lawmakers &#8211; all from Zamfara &#8211; in a suit against governor of the state, Bello Matawalle. 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