[b]The All Progressives Grand Alliance on Monday asked
an Abuja Federal High Court to declare the seat of Imo
State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, vacant for defecting
to the All Progressives Congress.

APGA wants the court to make an order directing the
Deputy Governor of Imo State or Speaker of the Imo
State House of Assembly, or any officer next in line to
the position of the Governor, who is a member of the
party, to be inaugurated as the governor of the state.

The party also asked the court to order the Independent
National Electoral Commission to nullify the Certificate
of Return issued to Okorocha, and issue a certificate of
return to his replacement.


Okorocha, INEC and the Imo State House of Assembly
are listed as the 1st to 3rd defendants in the suit,
respectively.

In the suit filed by its counsel, Victor Odjemu, APGA
argued that by virtue of the provisions of section
177(c) and 221 of the 1999 Constitution and section 97
of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) and the effect
of the Supreme Court decision in Amaechi v INEC, the
Imo State governorship mandate remains with it.

APGA maintained that the said mandate should be
exercised by the deputy governor of Imo State or the
speaker of the state House of Assembly or any officer
next in line to the Office of the Governor who is a
member of the party by virtue of section 191(1) and (2)
of the 1999 Constitution.

APGA is also asking the court to declare that Okorocha,
who it sponsored in the April 2011 elections, cannot
continue to occupy the office of the governor having
defected from the party that won the election to the
APC, as the mandate was given to the party (APGA) by
the electorate of Imo State and not the APC.

http://www.punchng.com/news/sack-okorocha-for-defecting-to-apc-apga-tells-court/[/b]

johnmartus: too much alcohol I thought they just wake up from they are dead

Pharaoh9: Alhamdililahi

DerideGull: I must confess that Nigerian courts are not punching their weights with respect to the development of democratic system of government in Nigeria. If a person decamps from the party that sponsored the person's candidature, the elective position must be declared vacant and be filled by the sponsoring political party until the term of office is expired or special election is staged.

1025:

sometimes, i derive pleasure in the political analysis of weed smokers. you became a lawyer immediately Rochas left apga. when the former imo state gov defected from ppa to pdp, u knew nothing about the laws of the land. i know u were not yet born when T.A. Orji defected from ppa to pdp? must u smoke? even if i like to listen to igbo smokers analyse politics, who told u everybody likes that?

1025:

sometimes, i derive pleasure in the political analysis of weed smokers. you became a lawyer immediately Rochas left apga. when the former imo state gov defected from ppa to pdp, u knew nothing about the laws of the land. i know u were not yet born when T.A. Orji defected from ppa to pdp? must u smoke? even if i like to listen to igbo smokers analyse politics, who told u everybody likes that?

1025:

sometimes, i derive pleasure in the political analysis of weed smokers. you became a lawyer immediately Rochas left apga. when the former imo state gov defected from ppa to pdp, u knew nothing about the laws of the land. i know u were not yet born when T.A. Orji defected from ppa to pdp? must u smoke? even if i like to listen to igbo smokers analyse politics, who told u everybody likes that?

1025:

sometimes, i derive pleasure in the political analysis of weed smokers. you became a lawyer immediately Rochas left apga. when the former imo state gov defected from ppa to pdp, u knew nothing about the laws of the land. i know u were not yet born when T.A. Orji defected from ppa to pdp? must u smoke? even if i like to listen to igbo smokers analyse politics, who told u everybody likes that?

1025:

sometimes, i derive pleasure in the political analysis of weed smokers. you became a lawyer immediately Rochas left apga. when the former imo state gov defected from ppa to pdp, u knew nothing about the laws of the land. i know u were not yet born when T.A. Orji defected from ppa to pdp? must u smoke? even if i like to listen to igbo smokers analyse politics, who told u everybody likes that?

Longeria: You're the greater fool. Did PPA challenge the defection of Ohakim and Orji?

le bien connu:

You are right. The guy is the chairman of the Association of Igbo Smokers of Nigeria (AISN). though his political analysis is very poor, stewpid, and childish he is an excellent weed smoker.

Olastep1: It seems Nigerians now like GEJ or only peculiar to Nairalanders?

TribalEAST: Alhaji rochas benjamin adekunle okorocha is going nowhere.

TribalEAST: Alhaji rochas benjamin adekunle okorocha is going nowhere.