A federal high court in Abuja has sacked 20 members of the Cross River state house of assembly who defected from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC.
The court, on Monday, in a judgment that was delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo, held that the lawmakers, having abandoned the political party that sponsored them to power, ought to vacate their seats.
The judgment followed a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/975/2021, which was filed by the PDP.
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