Hon. Francis Nwifuru, the Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, was fired by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday.
While delivering his ruling on Tuesday, Justice Inyang Ekwo ordered the Speaker and other members who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party in 2020 following the defection of state Governor David Umahi to the All Progressives Congress to forfeit their seats.
All MPs who were elected on the PDP platform and afterwards switched to the APC should relinquish their seats, according to Ekwo.
BREAKING: Umahi Sacked By Court For Joining APC, PDP Ordered To Produce Replacement
All salary and allowances provided to parliamentarians from the time of their defection until now should be forfeited to the government coffers, according to the Judge.
This follows the court’s dismissal of Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi and his Deputy, Dr. Eric Kelechi Igwe, for defecting to the APC.
The Judge found that the amount of 393, 042 votes Umahi received during the governorship election in Ebonyi state on March 9, 2019 belonged to the PDP and could not be transferred to the APC.
He demanded that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) replace them with a PDP candidate right away.
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Justice Inyang Ekwo ordered Umahi and his deputy to quit their positions immediately.
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