solomoni87:
if you can't beat them, join them. APC is unstoppable . stop the hate to avoid heart attack in 2023

PlayMaker14:
Still remains useless at APC likewise Ayade of Cross Rivers.....

Evergreen4:
It's not yet Uhuru for him . Supreme court may upturn the judgment. congratulations to him. He still remains one of the best performing governors

garfield1:


He will win ebonyi south and deliver 25% to tinubu

PlayMaker14:
25% of his tithe abi 25% of Abakaliki Okpa?

garfield1:


He gave buhari 25% of ebonyi while in pdp

Manny21:
He has but a short time to go. The purpose of defection has been grossly defeated. APC presidential ticket, e no even smell am.

NaughtyBrainiac:
I have never been to Ebonyi state but from everything I have heard about this Man called Umahi, he seems like one of the best Governors that has ever governed a Southeastern state.

Way better than one fraud of a presidential candidate being paraded as Saint to gullible followers.

Can someone help us check who performed better as Governor between Obi and Umahi?

PlayMaker14:
Lol, don't confuse yourself.... He can't give Tinubu 7%

Umahi became irrelevant the very day he starts dining with his oppressors.

NaughtyBrainiac:
I have never been to Ebonyi state but from everything I have heard about this Man called Umahi, he seems like one of the best Governors that has ever governed a Southeastern state.

Way better than one fraud of a presidential candidate being paraded as Saint to gullible followers.

Can someone help us check who performed better as Governor between Obi and Umahi?

Cherrybae:
South East is now fully an APC state.
S.

APC now has 4 South East states in the bag.

Tinubu us our next president and will develop the SE as he developed Lagos.

fergie001:
Justice Tsammani maintained that the only option left for an aggrieved Political Party over the defection of a Governor is by impeachment.

BESTScientist1:
ALL I KNOW IS TINUBU IS GOING NO WHERE

Ebubu:
God bless my leader. Ogbonna Nwifuru (Governor Ebonyi (APC), 2023)

Vnn2868:

FON IS A DREAM SHARED BY ALL.

Ebubu:
God bless my leader. Ogbonna Nwifuru (Governor Ebonyi (APC), 2023)

fergie001:
Justice Tsammani maintained that the only option left for an aggrieved Political Party over the defection of a Governor is by impeachment.

BluntCrazeMan:
Dear Justice Tsunami...
Can a Political Party “IMPEACH” an elected Political Official.??

fergie001:

House of Assembly... The judgement is right.

BluntCrazeMan:
So, what about a Legislator that decamped from his party??
Does the same judgement apply?

fergie001:

No.

The Constitution was specific for only legislators (State or Federal).

EKOSuperior:
The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) provides for the removal of the Governor or Deputy Governor of a state only in two sections, that is section 188 which provides for the removal of the Governor/Deputy Governor through impeachment by the State House of Assembly and in section 189 which provides for the removal of the Governor/Deputy Governor by the State Executive Council on the groud of permanent incapacity.

Apart from the provisions mentioned above, there is no other groud for the removal of the Governor provided by the Constitution except the Governor resigns his position or is dead, see Section 306 and 181 of the 1999 Constitution.

The Supreme Court in the celebrated case of ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION & 2 ORS V. ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR & 3 ORS (S.C. 31/2007) [2007] NGSC 118 (20 APRIL 2007) held inter alia that there is no express provision of the vacation of office of the vice president upon defection from his sponsoring political party to a rival party. The vice president can only resign from office as per the provisions of section 306 of the Constitution. The other clear provision relating to cessation of office and removal from office is said to be impeachment in sections 143 and 144 of the Constitution.
Accordingly, the appeal was dismissed.

The decision of the Supreme Court above also applies to the Governor/Deputy Governor of a state because the Constitution provides for right to freedom of association which includes political parties in Section 40.

In summary, section 1(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) provides that:

"This Constitution is supreme and its provisions shall have binding force on the authorities and persons
throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria."

It further provided in Section 1(3) that:

"If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall
prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.

The question begging for answer is: "the declaration of the seat of the Governor/Deputy Governor of Ebonyi State vacant, is it in line with the provisions of the Constitution?