March 15, (THEWILL) – The Ebonyi State House of Assembly on Tuesday declared the seats of three members elected under the platform of the People Democratic Party (PDP), vacant.
The development followed a joint letter of resignation purportedly written by the three lawmakers.
Speaker Francis Nwifuru read the letter on the floor of the House, after which he declared the seats of the three lawmakers vacant.
He also ordered the clerk to write and notify the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of the development and the need to conduct fresh elections in the affected constituencies.
The three lawmakers are Ali Okechukwu (Ishielu North); Franca Okpo (Abakaliki North) and Victor Aleke (Ebonyi West).
The lawmakers and their PDP colleagues were not at the sitting. But the fifteen All Progressive Party (APC) lawmakers attended the sitting on Tuesday.
THEWILL recalls that Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had last week sacked the 15 members of the House, who defected from the PDP to the APC.
