Tension as Sacked Plateau PDP Lawmakers Vow Resumption Today

As The Plateau State House of Assembly resumed plenary today, the 16 lawmakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said they would resume their legislative duties despite their sacking by the Court of Appeal.

This came as the All Progressives Congress, APC said the lawmakers remained sacked and their plan to resume was an ‘invitation to anarchy and a threat to democracy.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja had in November sacked all the 16 members of the state House of Assembly elected on the platform of the PDP on the grounds that the party had no structure to nominate them as candidates.

Addressing a press conference in Jos, on Monday, the 16 lawmakers, led by a former Majority Leader, Yobo Ishaku, said since the Supreme Court, which upheld the election of Governor Caleb Mutfwang on the same issue had ruled that the PDP had a valid structure to nominate them as candidates, the verdict of the Court of Appeal sacking them as lawmakers had become a nullity.

Ishaku, who represented Bokkos state constituency, said the 16 lawmakers are willing to go back to their legislative duties willingly given to them by their various constituencies.

Meanwhile, the Plateau State House of Assembly has been cordoned off by men of the Nigeria Police Force ahead of its resumed sitting on Tuesday.

Security was beefed up by the police following the resolve of the 16 former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers to resume sitting today despite their sack by the Appeal Court.

The state Command deployed its men to the complex as a proactive measure against any invasion of the sitting by hoodlums.

There are fears of a possible clash between the 16 PDP lawmakers sacked by the Court of Appeal and All Progressives Congress, APC, lawmakers declared winner