The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked Cornelius Doeyok, of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, a member representing Quaanpan South constituency in the Plateau State Assembly.
Doeyok, who is the only remaining PDP member in the assembly, was sacked on the ground that his party lacked the structure to sponsor any candidate in an election just as the other 15 lawmakers of the party that have now lost their seats to their opponents of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The court in a unanimous decision led by Abdu-azeez Wazi, declared Professor Theodore Bala Maiyaki, of APC, as the winner of the Mach 18 election into the seat of the State constituency.
The panel further ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the certificate of return earlier issued to Doeyok and issue a new certificate to Maiyaki.
With this development, all the 16 PDP lawmakers in the house have been sacked with APC now having 22 seats, while Labour Party and Young Peoples Party have one each.
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