Ardo prays senate to sack Sen Elisha Abbo
Ayodeji Ologundudu
The Adamawa State governorship aspirant under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in 2019, Dr. Umar Ardo, has urged Senate President Ahmad Lawan and the entire chamber to guide and protect the nation’s constitution by declaring vacant, the seat of Senator Elisha Abbo, who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC.)
According to his letter, titled Don’t imperi our democracy, copy of which was obtained by our correspondent, Ardo cited the express provision of Section 68(1)(g) of the nation’s 1999 constitution (as amended),”and the clear interpretation of this provision by the Supreme Court in Hon. Ifedayo Sunday Abegunde vs The Ondo State House of Assembly and others (2015) 8NWLR, (part 1461); or 2015) LPELR- 24588(Sc) to support his stance.
According to him, “Senate President Ahmed Lawan, owes the Nigerian State the inalienable duty to declare Sen. Cliff Abbo’s seat vacant in deference to the constitution of the FRN as a consequence of the latter’s defection from the PDP to the APC.
Lawan, having sworn an oath to “protect and defend the constitution”, he is “duty bound by his oath to so declare if he is not to fall guilty of aiding and abating the disparaging of the constitution by the senate of the FRN.
“If the constitution, the law, rules and regulations can be compromised on the alter of political interest, then our democracy, nay our society, is imperiled by the legislature itself, the most critical element of democracy,” he said.
He added that, “No political interest can supersede the constitution without threatening the very survival of our country as a democratic nation governed under law.
