BREAKING: Court Sacks Ex- House Speaker Dogara For Defecting To APC

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the removal of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, from the National Assembly, following his defection from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

Dogara is representing Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency of Bauchi state, at the House of Representatives.

Justice D.U. Okorowo gave the verdict on Friday in a PDP suit challenging his defection.

The court had on March 23 also shifted judgment in view of a suit filed in August 2020 by the Incorporated Trustees of United Global Resolve for Peace Organisation, through its counsel, Michael Okejimi Esq. of Messrs. Micheal Okejimi & Co. Law Empire.

The court was urged to declare vacant the seat of Dogara at the House of Representatives(currently representing Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency of Bauchi state) because he defected from the People’s Democratic Party “which sponsored and provided him the platform to contest his seat as a member of the House of Representatives.”

Okorowo agreed with the PDP by sacking Dogara, affirming that he lost his membership of the National Assembly from the day he defected to the APC.

Regarding the separate defection suit filed by United Global Resolve for Peace Organisation, Justice Okorowo said it had no right to appear in court over the matter (locus standi).

Okejimi Esq. told our correspondent that he will “appeal” the judge’s finding.