There is no law barring the defection of 11 senators-Lai Mohammed

The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, said
that there was no court order barring the 11 former
PDP Senators from defecting to the APC, contrary to
the misinformation being peddled in some quarters.
This was contained in a statement issued in Ilorin,
Kwara State, by the National Interim Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Mohammed said that the only existing court order
was to the effect that the Senate President and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives should
maintain the status quo concerning defecting
lawmakers.
According to him: ‘’What this order means is that neither the President of the Senate nor the Speaker of
the House can declare vacant the seats of the
defecting lawmakers. It does not mean the letter of
notification from defecting members cannot be read
on the floor of the chambers. ’’We are not asking that the issue of the defection
should be discussed or debated on the floor of the
Senate. All we are saying is that the Senate
President should read the letter of notification.’’
APC said that in view of this, the argument that the
defecting letter could not be read on the floor, so as not to contravene the Senate’s Standing Rules that
precluded the upper chamber from discussing any
matter that was already in court, did not apply in this
case.

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