A federal high court in Abuja has
struck out a suit seeking to declare vacant, the seats of Senate President
Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of house of representatives, and 52
other federal lawmakers who defected from their political parties in the
buildup to the general election.
Delivering judgment on Friday,
Okon Abang, the presiding judge, held that the Legal Defence and Assistance
Project (LEDAP), the body which instituted the suit, lacked the legal right to institute it.
He held that LEDAP’s status as a
registered corporate body under the Company and Allied Matters Act was not
sufficient to confer the right to institute the action on behalf of the public.
“Plaintiff has not placed
anything before the court to show that any of the constituents who voted the
lawmakers into office are even aware of the suit,” he held.
Abang held that the plaintiff’s
failure to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives
Congress (APC) which sponsored the elections of the defector legislators, was
fatal to the suit.
Saraki and Dogara had defected
from the APC to PDP while Godswill Akpabio, former senate minority leader,
moved from PDP to APC.
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