PDP DECAMPEE APC LAWMAKERS ARE CLAIMING ERROR FULL JUDGEMENT, ''COURT DID NO'T ASK US TO VACATE'', APPEALS RULING

All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers moved fast yesterday to correct what they saw as a wrong interpretation of the Federal High Court’s ruling.

The party caucus in the House of Representatives said Justice Adeniyi Ademola did not ask the 37 lawmakers to vacate their seats. According to the caucus, the judgment was that the 37 members could not participate in the removal of principal officers. “Other pronouncements by the judge as to the status of our 37 members were mere opinion,” the caucus said.

The lawmakers, who spoke with reporters after plenary, said the ruling had confirmed their worst fears and accused their colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being “in collusion with a certain judge to turn facts and law on its head to achieve sinister ends”.

Minority Whip Samson Osagie, who read a statement titled: “Justice Adeniyi Ademola’s judgment on 37 APC Representatives: at last our fears have been confirmed”, on behalf of the caucus, said: “The judgment has turned law on its head and cannot stand.” The caucus accused the judge of “veering off the course of the case before him to do the bidding of the ruling party.”

The 37 affected members yesterday appealed the ruling via a letter from their solicitors, M.A. Mahmud (SAN) & Co. The appeal is on seven grounds of “Error in Law”. 

Extract fromthe nationonlineng.net