APP rejects court ruling on 27 pro-Wike Rivers lawmakers

The opposition Action People’s Party (APP) has faulted the decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja which dismissed the defection suit it instituted against 27 Rivers State House of Assembly lawmakers loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.

APP’s national chairman, Mr. Ucho Nnadi, vowed to appeal the judgement of the court decision declaring the decampment of 27 sacked Rivers State lawmakers as a Pre-election issue.

APP insisted that the former lawmakers remain sacked until a higher court rules otherwise adding that the court ruling is against the dictates of the 1999 constitution, as amended.

The party wondered why the court declared the matter as a Pre-election issue even when it is trite knowledge that the embattled lawmakers won elections before they defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Nnadi added that the party is already filing an appeal and that Oko Jumbo remains the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

It argued: “So decampment is now a Pre-election matter??? That’s not what the Constitution says. On the abuse of court process, The pending cases in that federal high court before Justice Omotosho was on trying to stop the National Assembly from taking over the functions of Rivers State House of Assembly.

“No court has declared that the illegal decampment of the sacked lawmakers is valid. They can’t come through the back door. The matter is being appealed. And going by subsisting judgements of the courts Oko Jumbo remains speaker of Rivers state house of assembly.”