Dan Nwanyanwu, the chairman of the Zenith Labour Party, addressed the defection of 27 lawmakers from the Rivers State House of Assembly from the PDP to the APC. He emphasized that under section 109 1g of the Nigerian constitution, these lawmakers have lost their seats....READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
In a video shared by Arise TV, Nwanyanwu referred to a statement by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and former Governor of Rivers State, who asserted that one cannot win an election under one party and then switch to another while retaining their elected position.
Nwanyanwu highlighted that if a state House of Assembly member leaves the party they were elected with and joins another party, they forfeit their seat. He stressed that the mandate to serve belongs to the party that originally won the seat.
During an interview on Arise Television, he remarked, “Wike said you can’t win a seat in the State Assembly on the vehicle of a party and you leave it and go to another party with the mandate. Wike said so”…READ FULL ARTICLE
