Re: Kogi ADC petitions NASS, seeks declaration of lawmaker’s seat vacant
….Their plot is dead on arrival, Yagba Federal Constituency seat remains intact for Hon. Leke Abejide
The recent dramatic performance of one Mr Kingsley and John Adaji in their letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon Tajudeen Abbas seeking the declaration of the Yagba Federal Constituency seat vacant should ordinarily beat the imagination of every enlightened mind, it is absolutely outside the provinces of common sense and reality.
It is common knowledge that the self-acclaimed Kogi state ADC Chairman, Mr Kingsley Temitope, has been expelled from the party for misappropriating funds and other misconduct that has put the party in disarray. Parading himself as the party chairman in Kogi state is illegal.
What is mind-boggling is how he has been parading himself as the State Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and also seeking that an elected member’s seat be declared vacant. Hon. Leke Abejide is the only standing member of the ADC, who has kept the party together from being deregistered by INEC.
To set the record straight, Mr Kingsley and Adaji John are no longer members of ADC in Kogi state and they have no constitutional or statutory powers to expel Hon. Leke Abejide from the party or seek that his seat be declared vacant in the House of Representatives.
We acknowledge their constitutional right to play politics, but it is wrong for them to continue to parade themselves as members of ADC with their untested status as an objective egg-head to misinform the unsuspecting public including using the elected seat of Yagba Federal Constituency.
They cannot discard or seek to declare vacant the electoral mandate given to Hon. Leke Abejide which was given by the electorate of Yagba Federal Constituency.
“The constitutional role, duties, and powers given under Section 53 or any other provision of the Constitution do not extend to the determination of validity, lawfulness, or whether a Member of the House of Representatives has ceased to be a member of the House.
The certificate of return issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) entitled a Member to continue to be in office for four years, except he is removed by a court or tribunal lawfully constituted, resigned, died or he was otherwise removed under Section 68 of the Constitution.
Therefore, Mr Kingsley Temitope and Adaji’s claims to declare the Yagba Federal Constituency seat vacant are shameless and baseless, as their application is not backed by any known law or judicial precedent in Nigeria.
The desperate actions of the political errand lads, who are parading themselves as members of ADC are indications that they have lost it totally. Wondered why grown adults are not knowledgeable of the content of political parties’ constitutions and the nation’s constitution to have crafted a funny letter of such, seeking to declare vacant a serving lawmaker’s seat on imaginary grounds of a non-existent kangaroo expulsion from the party, which is not even a ground for declaring a seat vacant.
Mr Kingsley Temitope and Adaji John should stop parading themselves as members of ADC in Kogi state, as their letter is dead on arrival with no substantive grounds.
The Letter written to the Speaker by this group of political jokers is seeking the impossible and ridiculous prayer, asking that Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas declared the seat of Yagba Federal Constituency vacant rep Leke Abejide who didn’t even decamp from the party for which he was elected.
“How do you wake up and seek the seat of a serving lawmaker who is still a member of his party to be declared vacant on an imaginary ground of a non-existing kangaroo expulsion from the party which is not even a ground for declaring a seat vacant.”
The hatred from these impostors who want to come to the party through the back door and through illegality over the hard stance of Abejide on the issues of their illegal decamping to the party and also claiming to have taken over the party is why they are engaging in diverse ridiculous illegal attempts to attack Abejide whose advocacy against the illegalities of these rogues aimed at seizing the party he held solid.
“This is yet another absurdity and embarrassment from these illegal hijackers whose mission is to take over our party through their illegal and purported backdoor hijack.
“Yagba Federal Constituency seat remains intact for Rt. Hon. Leke Abejide because in line with the law, he remains a member of ADC under the party he was elected and has not defected to another party. Mr Kingley Temitope should stop parading his illegality. He is no longer the Kogi State Chairman of the African Democratic Congress ADC, no amount of restlessness and baseless plots will change that.”
