Defection: Court grants Akpabio fair hearing - Premium Times Nigeria

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, granted leave to a senator from Akwa Ibom, Godswill Akpabio, to be heard in a suit seeking his removal and 53 others from office over their defection from one political party to another.

The presiding judge, Okon Abang, after listening to the argument from parties, had on April 30, adjourned till May 17 for judgment. Mr Abang held that it would not be proper to shut the applicant out of the case, when he was not aware of the tendency of the case, adding that it is mandatory to hear all parties before a decision is taken.“He must be heard, it is his fundamental right” Mr Abang said.

Mr Akpabio, who was elected senator in 2015 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party had in 2018, decamped to the All Progressives Congress . Mr Akpabio insisted that his attention was not drawn to the suit by the Clerk of the National Assembly, neither was he personally served with the suit.

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