PDP legal adviser faults Akpabio’s defection to APC – TheNigerialawyer

The legal Adviser to Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Godwin Umoh, yesterday described Senator
Godswill Akpabio’s claim that he moved and not defected to the All
Progressives Congress (APC) as unknown to law, or the constitution
of the party and that of the country.

Akpabio, the former Senate Minority Leader and former Governor
of Akwa Ibom State had through his lead counsel, Sunday Ameh, told
a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that he was suspended and
expelled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a suit seeking
his removal and that of 53 other members of the National
Assembly.

He described the suit, which was filed on account of the
lawmakers’ defection in 2018 from PDP to APC as incompetent.

The lawmaker told Justice Okon Abang that an advocacy group,
Legal Aides Assistant Project, instituted the case without a locus
standi, asking the court to dismiss the suit.

This was as he argued that LEDAP was not a political party or a
member of the National Assembly and as such, it could not advocate
for the political party from where the lawmakers decamped.

Relying on Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution, Akpabio had
justified his movement in what he referred to as ‘an uncommon’
situation within the PDP, which compelled him to opt to the All
Progressives Congress as an alternative party to actualise his
political interest.

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