BREAKING! Police Teargas 16 Sacked PDP Lawmakers In Plateau [See Why]
Armed policemen have teargassed the 16 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members of the Plateau State House of Assembly who were sacked by the Court of Appeal, The Punch reports.
The lawmakers had arrived at the Rayfield Old Government House in Jos, the capital of Plateau State on Tuesday morning alongside their supporters preparatory to their resumption of plenary when the incident happened.
The policemen and other security agents took over the premises of the Government House and prevented the sacked lawmakers from going into the chambers of the House of Assembly but the lawmakers had vowed not to vacate the premises.
In an earlier report, the 16 lawmakers elected on the platform of the PDP on Monday said they will resume their legislative duties despite their sack by the Court of Appeal.
The appellate court sitting in Abuja had in November sacked all the 16 members of the State House of Assembly elected on the platform of the PDP on the ground that the party had no structure to nominate them as candidates.
While addressing a press conference in Jos on Monday, the 16 lawmakers led by a former Majority Leader, Yobo Ishaku, argued that since the Supreme Court which upheld the election of the State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, on the same issue had ruled that the PDP had valid structure to nominate them as candidates, the verdict of the appeal court sacking them as lawmakers had become a nullity.
