vanbonattel:
Falana is right, APC was completely shattered and scattered to the extent that Oshiomole was the acting president while buharri and Osinbajo were rendered redundant in aso rock.

Oshomole was even controlling ministers and sanctioning them to report to him. Saraki defection is therefore justified by law.

yanabasee:


With this given... Saraki and co. had a factionalization and divisional crisis, before defecting to PDP.

APC should stop crying and focus on its administrative functionalities and try to win the people's votes if they want to stay in power...


Round up the recruitment of the paramilitary agencies that has been on a still... Avoid making PDP's mistakes...

seunmsg:
This is the point those shouting about constitutionality refused to take into account. According to our constitution, Saraki and other decampees lost their senate seat the day they decamped to another party. Since Saraki is the latest advocate for the constitution and our democracy that they say is in danger, we should all tell him to democratically vacate his seat in accordance with the constitution. An artificially created r-APC that already signed up with CUPP or whatever that contraption is called did not make it mpossible or impracticable for APC to function. So, there is no justification whatsoever for the defection.

midolian:
Saraki sponsored the division within the party out of greed and defected afterwards..how is his defection justified by law?

In fact, our laws are a big problem to us. In the first place, they were created by criminals so it shouldn't come to anyone as a surprise why there are so many loopholes..

If you want to defect, you should be defecting back home. It makes no sense to defect from a party under which you have won a seat to a party that tried hard to ensure you dont.

vanbonattel:
Falana is right, APC was completely shattered and scattered to the extent that Oshiomole was the acting president while buharri and Osinbajo were rendered redundant in aso rock.

Oshomole was even controlling ministers and sanctioning them to report to him. Saraki defection is therefore justified by law.

midolian:


https://punchng.com/constitutional-provisions-for-defection-falana/

[b]With this said, should defectors lose their seats? [/b]Falana where were you with your legal expertise when the defections were from pdp to Apc?,the solution to all these is a blanket ban on defection while still holding elective position,this way every body will sit up n organise themselves.

frowland:

Sorry who is APC's factional chairman and when did they have their convention? Who made him chairman, or is he a self appointed chairman?

hannysur8:
Do we follow constitution in Nigeria

FOLYKAZE:




Have we considered there is R-APC primary birthed to legally smoothen their defection? This is what they did in PDP and same thing playing out in APC.

I am just scared Saraki would use that party faction clause to declare Akpabio seat vacant, and battle APC in court by arguing that R-APC is a faction of APC. With that, the case is lost

FOLYKAZE:


Let see how APC legal team deal with the issue.

I need you to address this question please. Can Saraki declare Akpabio seat vacant?

yeyerolling:
Uk usa and china pls come and recolonised us. We have shown since 1960 say we no get sense

seunmsg:
This is the point those shouting about constitutionality refused to take into account. According to our constitution, Saraki and other decampees lost their senate seat the day they decamped to another party. Since Saraki is the latest advocate for the constitution and our democracy that they say is in danger, we should all tell him to democratically vacate his seat in accordance with the constitution. An artificially created r-APC that already signed up with CUPP or whatever that contraption is called did not make it mpossible or impracticable for APC to function. So, there is no justification whatsoever for the defection.

seunmsg:
This is the point those shouting about constitutionality refused to take into account. According to our constitution, Saraki and other decampees lost their senate seat the day they decamped to another party. Since Saraki is the latest advocate for the constitution and our democracy that they say is in danger, we should all tell him to democratically vacate his seat in accordance with the constitution. An artificially created r-APC that already signed up with CUPP or whatever that contraption is called did not make it mpossible or impracticable for APC to function. So, there is no justification whatsoever for the defection.

MrImole:



Stop "asslicking" these guys...




They're not better...

midolian:


https://punchng.com/constitutional-provisions-for-defection-falana/

With this said, should defectors lose their seats?

FOLYKAZE:
I watched a brilliant young lawyer arguing on the same premises as Falana. And the guy even quoted from the 1999 constitution and reference the Supreme Court judgement on precedence. The fact is that these politicians know their way round all the loopholes in our constitution and they are taking advantage of that.

Firstly, according to the law, the mandate of a political officer belongs primarily to the political platform and another round belongs to the people.

Secondly, the constitution made it clear that no political office holder can decamp to another political platform unless in case the former platform has broken into many factions.

Thirdly, in case there is no factions, the party who owns the mandate, has the power to charge the defected candidate to court and see that the seat is declared vacant. For the people, they can recall politicians they ain't pleased with.

Because of the illustration above, Politicians create an artificial rancour within the party which degenerate into factions. We had the brains of NPDP in 2014. The same brain financed R-APC so that they can pave their way out of APC legally.

I am convinced that Saraki financed and mastermind the birth and development of R-APC. The aim is achieved as they can argue that APC is factionalised. APC will have a very long way to go before they can win the case.

R-APC should be dismantled. They have no genuine reason why they should factionalise. The only way to fight the war is to Impeach Saraki and Ekweremadu before the duo play the fast one on Akpabio

vanbonattel:
Falana is right, APC was completely shattered and scattered to the extent that Oshiomole was the acting president while buharri and Osinbajo were rendered redundant in aso rock.

Oshomole was even controlling ministers and sanctioning them to report to him. Saraki defection is therefore justified by law.

midolian:


https://punchng.com/constitutional-provisions-for-defection-falana/

With this said, should defectors lose their seats?

seunmsg:
This is the point those shouting about constitutionality refused to take into account. According to our constitution, Saraki and other decampees lost their senate seat the day they decamped to another party. Since Saraki is the latest advocate for the constitution and our democracy that they say is in danger, we should all tell him to democratically vacate his seat in accordance with the constitution. An artificially created r-APC that already signed up with CUPP or whatever that contraption is called did not make it mpossible or impracticable for APC to function. So, there is no justification whatsoever for the defection.

vanbonattel:
Falana is right, APC was completely shattered and scattered to the extent that Oshiomole was the acting president while buharri and Osinbajo were rendered redundant in aso rock.

Oshomole was even controlling ministers and sanctioning them to report to him. Saraki defection is therefore justified by law.

FOLYKAZE:


Let see how APC legal team deal with the issue.

I need you to address this question please. Can Saraki declare Akpabio seat vacant?

FOLYKAZE:




Have we considered there is R-APC primary birthed to legally smoothen their defection? This is what they did in PDP and same thing playing out in APC.

I am just scared Saraki would use that party faction clause to declare Akpabio seat vacant, and battle APC in court by arguing that R-APC is a faction of APC. With that, the case is lost

TheUbermensch:



Lol.

If Tambuwal defected and nothing happened, I don't see why Saraki's case should be different.

vedaxcool:
Clearly APC should have sued Saraki when he perpetuated the first fruad alongside PDP by voting without the assembly fully inaugurated. Clearly there is no factionalization at the national level of AP. Their actions are illigal. APC should sue for the courts to declare their seats vacant.

Defenders of democracy should follow obeg simple constitutional provisions.

abes:


Nothing happened because PDP did not challenge him.

seunmsg:
This is the point those shouting about constitutionality refused to take into account. According to our constitution, Saraki and other decampees lost their senate seat the day they decamped to another party. Since Saraki is the latest advocate for the constitution and our democracy that they say is in danger, we should all tell him to democratically vacate his seat in accordance with the constitution. An artificially created r-APC that already signed up with CUPP or whatever that contraption is called did not make it mpossible or impracticable for APC to function. So, there is no justification whatsoever for the defection.