The stance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the Rivers State House of Assembly members who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), has not changed.
The party made this disclosure on Thursday, in a statement issued by Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, saying the clarification was a rebuttal to a “mischievous report” that the party was considering changing its position.
Ologunagba said the report on social media “falsely” claimed that “there are plots to compromise the party’s position and provide an unattainable lifeline” to the former members of the Rivers Atate House of Assembly who dumped the PDP.
Read the statement: “The Party also clarifies that it is not under pressure from any quarters to compromise its position in court, wherein it had already clearly stated that the former Rivers State lawmakers are no longer members of the Rivers State House of Assembly from December 11, 2023, when they publicly announced their defection from the PDP to the APC.
“Our party therefore stands by its position that the affected members have since lost their seats in the Rivers State House of Assembly having arrogantly committed an unpardonable constitutional breach”.
In December 2023, 27 members of the Rivers House of Assembly defected from the PDP to the APC.
A state high court in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Friday, restrained the defected Assembly members from parading themselves as legislators.
An interim injunction was also granted by the court, restraining Martin Amaewhule from parading himself as Speaker of the House.
