Plateau State House of Assembly may be thrown into confusion on Tuesday as the 16 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were sacked by the Court of Appeal have vowed to resume legislative duties on Tuesday.
Addressing newsmen in Jos, Plateau State on Monday, the spokesman of the group, Hon Ishaku Maren, advised All Progressives Congress (APC) not to go near the House of Assembly because the Supreme Court by its pronouncement had invalidated the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which sacked them.
According to him, as law-abiding citizens, they are ready to resume work to represent the people who duly elected them.
He said, “As you can see the 16 PDP members, the Plateau State House of Assembly, all here to address the press regarding our resumption to duty tomorrow because our recess will be ending today (Monday), and by tomorrow, (Tuesday) we are resuming walking in earnest and we are confident to address the press by informing the general public that my members that is PDP family members in the State Assembly are in high spirits and are willing and ready to go back and continue with our constitutional duty willingly given to us by the electorates. So we are all ready for the resumption of work tomorrow.
“You might be aware that while we were on recess, there were two Judgments that were passed regarding the status of the state House of Assembly and Plateau State as a whole.
“The first one was that given by the Court of Appeal, where they said that one cannot put something on nothing; that PDP in Plateau state has no structure and it was on that premise to that they sacked all the 16 PDP members and lo and behold, as we were on recess, a superior court gave its own verdict regarding the same issue and in the judgment of the Supreme Court they said that the judgment that was brought before the Court of Appeal in its entirety was fraudulent and because of that, the Court of Appeal lacked even the jurisdiction to entertain the entire matter.
“By that it shows that we are also referring to the same judgment that one cannot build something on nothing,” he said.
. TheWitness
