…Lawmakers to appeal
Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has described the court ruling by an Abuja Federal High Court, calling on the 37 lawmakers who defected to the opposition APC as a strange judgment that turned law on its head.
Gbajabiamila said in a statement that “the judgment is a product of error of court the,” adding that the lawmakers would be willing to appeal at a higher court.
“The judgement is strange and will be appealed. No person can be compelled by law to stay in an association against his or her wishes,” he said.
Gbajabiamila also said that the judgment is an affront to right of association of the lawmakers.
“It negates a fundamental right of association of every citizen that is inalienable. Section 68 of the constitution has been turned on its head and the error of the court is manifest,” he said.
The ruling which was delivered today by a Federal High Court by Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who said that by defecting to the opposition APC, the lawmakers should not have any business doing in the National Assembly.
He said they should honourably resign from their positions having left the party that sponsored them to the House without any faction in the PDP.
Source: Daily Trust
