The Senate on Thursday opened a constitutional debate over the continued stay of the lawmaker representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, following his alleged sack by the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
The upper chamber threatened to invoke Section 68(1) of the Constitution if he fails to voluntarily withdraw his recent defection letter to the African Democratic Congress.
This means his seat would be Declared vacant and Abaribe will go home.
The controversy erupted during plenary after the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, read the senator’s letter of defection alongside others who recently changed party affiliations
Raising concerns over the constitutional implications of the move, Akpabio urged the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, to scrutinise the defection letters to determine whether the lawmakers met the constitutional conditions for leaving their parties
