The spokesperson for the group, Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere (PDP-Imo) made the call while addressing newsmen in Abuja. He reacted to the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal on the 25 members of the Rivers House of Assembly who defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and their seats were declared vacant in line with provisions of the Constitution.
Ugochinyere said that the grand norm is very clear when it says, that an elected member shall vacate his seat if he defects to another party against the laid down conditions of the Constitution.
The lawmaker said that the conditions for defecting and remaining in office are when there is a division in a party or a merger of two or more parties. He said that the 28 former members of the state assembly defected against the provisions of the law and they remained sacked from the assembly unless a judgment of a competent court decides otherwise.
