The Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, has approached the Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja in search of the removing of 4 federal lawmakers from Osun State over their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The affected legislators are Senator Francis Adenigba Fadahunsi (Osun East), Senator Olubiyi Oluwole Fadeyi (Osun Central), Hon. Omirin Emmanuel Olusanya (Atakumosa East/West and Ilesa East/West Federal Constituency), and Hon. Taofeek Abimbola Ajilesoro (Ife Central/East/North and South Federal Constituency).
In 4 separate fits filed on Wednesday by its lead counsel, Raphael Oyewole, the PDP listed every lawmaker as the first defendant. The Senate President was joined as 2nd defendant within the circumstances involving the senators, whereas the Speaker of the Home of Representatives was named as 2nd defendant within the fits towards the 2 Home members. The Nationwide Meeting, the Clerk of the Nationwide Meeting, and the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, have been cited as third to fifth defendants in all of the circumstances.
The PDP argued that, consistent with Part 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Structure (as amended), lawmakers who defect from the political get together on whose platform they have been elected, with none proof of a division, merger, or faction in that get together, robotically lose their seats.
The opposition get together urged the court docket to declare that the continued keep of the 4 lawmakers in workplace, after leaving the PDP for the APC, violates the Structure and renders their seats vacant by operation of legislation.
Amongst different reliefs, the PDP requested the court docket for:
An order of mandamus compelling Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Home Speaker Tajudeen Abbas to declare the seats vacant;
A directive to INEC to conduct bye-elections to fill the affected constituencies and senatorial districts;
An order instructing the Clerk of the Nationwide Meeting to cease paying salaries, allowances, and different entitlements to the lawmakers;
A refund of all salaries, allowances, and advantages obtained by the lawmakers from the date they defected till the ultimate judgment.
The get together insisted that granting the reliefs sought would strictly implement Part 68(1)(g) and (2) of the Structure and restore constitutional order within the Nationwide Meeting.
The originating summons have been filed underneath go well with numbers FHC/ABJ/CS/1725/2025, FHC/ABJ/CS/1728/2025, FHC/ABJ/CS/1727/2025, and FHC/ABJ/CS/1726/2025 towards Fadahunsi, Fadeyi, Olusanya, and Ajilesoro respectively.
