Maria Ude Nwachi
The Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) in Ebonyi State, at the
weekend, said it has filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Abakaliki
seeking for declaration of the seat of the representative of Afikpo
North in the state Assembly, Maria Ude Nwachi, vacant.
According to Daily Sun, Chairman of the party in the state, Mr.
Onyiba Samuel Uche Udeogu, disclosed this while interacting with newsmen
in Abakaliki, the state capital.
Udeogu said the reason the suit was filed was because the House of
Assembly member who was sponsored on the platform of the PPA during the
last general election decamped to the People Democratic Party (PDP) in
the State.
“My reason of taking this matter to court was because the
actions of Hon. Maria Ude Nwachi which my party sponsored to the House
of Assembly were against sections 106 sub-section 1d and section 109
sub-section 1g of the constitution of federal republic of Nigeria as
amended in 1999.
“It is a settled law that once there is no division in your
party at the national level or there are no talks of merger with any
other political party or group that defection in that instance becomes a
nullity.
“It is only when there is division in your party which I am
sure that PPA at the national level has no division of any kind. Just
recently, at the last Anambra governorship election, my party’s
governorship candidate, Ezeemo participated in the election and we have
no crisis at the national level.
“For her to have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
without any conflict is unconstitutional and therefore, her seat would
be declared vacant,” he insisted.
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