BREAKING: Appeal Court Sacks 21 PDP Lawmakers

BREAKING: Appeal Court Sacks 21 PDP Lawmakers

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has removed all 16 members of the Plateau State House of Assembly affiliated with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) due to disobedience to a court order and a lack of political structure.

Professor John Wade, an All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, stated that the PDP deserves no sympathy, asserting that the party brought its troubles upon itself. Meanwhile, the State Commissioner of Information and Communications, Mr Musa Ashoms, characterized the recent judgment against the PDP as a temporary setback.

Before this ruling, the Appeal Court had previously ousted four members of the House of Representatives and two senators affiliated with the PDP.

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In a surprising turn of events, the Speaker of the State Assembly, Honourable Moses Sule, along with his deputy and other principal figures of the House, resigned last week. Honourable Dewan Gabriel of the YPP was subsequently elected as the new Speaker, who promptly adjourned the House’s sitting indefinitely.

There are speculations that this change in leadership was intended to prevent the inauguration of the new members, who might have investigated the financial activities of the Governor Muftwang-led administration over the past five months and potentially initiated impeachment proceedings before the Supreme Court judgment.

It is also reported that a returning APC member from the southern part of the state has been identified as the likely next Speaker of the 24-member State Assembly, leading to concerns about a possible probe into the governor’s financial activities.

The state publicity secretary of the APC, Mr Slyvanus Namang, dismissed claims of a directive to impeach the governor, stating that it was fabricated by the PDP to gain sympathy.

“We are law-abiding and believe in the rule of law and due process. It was concocted by the PDP to get the sympathy of the people.

There is no plan whatsoever in that regard,” he said.

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On the new Speaker elected, Namang said it was a plan by the state government towards ensuring that the new members of the House are not sworn in, thus causing a constitutional crisis in the legislative arm of government.

According to him, to execute the ill-motivated script, as soon as the Speaker was sworn in on Tuesday, he immediately declared a 2-month recess until January 21st, 2024.

“This onslaught and legislative impunity have put paid to the speculations about the grand design by Governor Mutfwang to stall the inauguration and swearing in of the new members returned by the Court of Appeal, which is to be effected next week.”

Speaking with Sunday Tribune on the judgment and other previous ones against the PDP, the Director of Research and Documentation in the last APC administration, Professor John Wade, said the PDP deserves no sympathy for having shot itself in the foot.

He attributed the misfortune of the PDP to the arrogance of some elders of the party who believe that they hold the ace as far as the party in the state is concerned and, in their process, abandoned quality advice from some elder statesmen.

“They have shot themselves in the leg; they ignored quality advice. But unfortunately, they underestimated people, their silence, and even the law as it is. The Electoral Act today is not the same as it was five years ago, so the PDP didn’t see all these things, and again, in politics, being a game of intrigue, your detractors who also want power will sit down quitely watching you, even the mistakes you have made. That is what plays out in Kano.

“We have been watching them because, based on our research, we know that at the end of the day, the justice that we would get will be too tight for them to get any justice. To me, they shot themselves.

“And again, the lawmakers who have made their names like Beni Lar are unfortunately swept away by the wind. You cannot sympathize with them because if they were courageous enough, they should have told the leader of the party that giving the position of the party is not proper. Like Edward picated, today he stands vin-However, the State Commissioner of Information and Communications, Mr. Musa Ashoms, said it was appalling and disheartening that some people, especially the APC, claimed the PDP has no structure in the state.

Ashoms said the prevailing political situation in Plateau State was a temporary setback for the PDP and expressed optimism that the party would get victory at the Supreme Court.

“So it is quite disheartening that meddlesome interlopers will now be speaking with venom and anger because they want to just snatch our mandates at all costs, so it is disheartening that they are misinforming the general public. The reality on the ground is that the PDP has a solid structure on the Plateau, and His Excellency from Osun State was the chairman of the congresses that brought Chris Hassan into power,” he said.

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