slimfit1:
Mimiko is in trouble.

CFCfan:

The "defection" law only applies to legislators. It doesn't apply to the President, VP, Governors and Deputy Governors.

Fourwinds:
says who.

Demdem:


ur papa

CFCfan:

Says section 68 of the constitution. It's silent on defections by elected executive office holders.

Montaque:
Tambuwal just escaped this sledge hammer!

Fourwinds:
don't say dat. dere were crises at d national level of d party. have u forgot 16 greater dan 19.,, what about Olagusoye Oyelola saga( as secretary). So if Tambowal has laid his claim on dis., den he is safe except he wants to lay claim at d state level. which d Supreme Court as clarified

CFCfan:

The "defection" law only applies to legislators. It doesn't apply to the President, VP, Governors and Deputy Governors.

Montaque:
crisis is not division.
No party is without crisis.

donveekings:

donveekings:

Children everywhere u turn on naira land! What has a lawyer V.P got to do with the judiciary? Was he not part of Lagos state government? And worked directly with the ministry of justice?

Occurstaem:
Since 2011.
This is the real issue. General Buhari should look into the slow motion that is synonymous to our judicial sector. Thank God our vice president-elect is a lawyer. Our judiciary should braze up in delivering its verdict.

Fourwinds:
don't say dat. dere were crises at d national level of d party. have u forgot 16 greater dan 19.,, what about Olagusoye Oyelola saga( as secretary). So if Tambowal has laid his claim on dis., den he is safe except he wants to lay claim at d state level. which d Supreme Court as clarified

Demdem:
This is an excellent precedence. A big stop to such jumps.

Fourwinds:
what are u saying. what about nPDP consisting of 7 governors in which 5 later defected

Montaque:
Tambuwal just escaped this sledge hammer!
This judgement is good for now,
PDP stay in ur seat
APC stay in ur seat.
Let's strengthen our democracy.

Montaque:
the nPDP issue happened way before Tambuwals defection. The two are apart in time. The lawmakers that defected then can be excused,but the ones that defected when the issue was long dead cannot hold on to that excuse. Tambuwal's defence then was the crisis in PDP Sokoto state.

mu2sa2:
Our snail-speed judicial process isn't helping matters. lf u think Tambuwal infringed the constitution by defecting to Apc, you may sue him and wait for 5 years or more for the supreme court decision.

Fourwinds:
dere was a statement I made before d one u quoted. I gave reasons y Tambowal can be excused and y he can not. read thru d tread

Montaque:
well, the processes HAS been filed and the defences he gave for his defection are no defence at all, in the light of this decision.

ozoigbondu:
The law should start descending heavily on political prostuties we are in a democracy not Jumpocracy.

emperorceaser:
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered ‎ a member of House of Representatives representing Akure South/North Federal Constituency of Ondo State, ‎Ifedayo Abegunde, to vacate his seat on account of his defection from the Labour Party, which sponsored his election in 2011, to the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria.
‎In a unanimous decision by the seven-man panel, led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, the apex court held that Abegunde’s defection could not be justified since his excuse of purported division in the Labour Party was not in existence in the “national structure” of the party.
The court noted that the division and factionalisation, cited by Abegunde as his excuse for abandoning the LP, was only at the state level.

Justice Musa Muhammad, who read the lead judgment, held that only a “division” that makes it “impossible or impracticable” for the party to function, by virtue of the provision in Section 68(1)(g) of the constitution, justifies a person’s defection to another party.

Abegunde had defected from LP to the ACN in 2011, and in a bid to pre-empt the party from recalling him, filed a suit at the Federal High Court.

He lost the case at the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal and subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court.

Details later…


http://www.punchng.com/news/defection-supreme-court-orders-ondo-rep-to-vacate-seat/