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The Labour Party has vowed to take legal action against lawmakers elected in its platform, who recently dumped that party and defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The party also said it would request the leadership of the House of Representatives to declare the seats of the lawmakers vacant.
Additionally, the opposition party, in a statement issued in Abuja by the its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, disclosed: However, Ifoh said in the statement: “The party has also decided to open a ‘Hall of Shame’ register for these lawmakers or any elected official of the party who engages in fraudulent defection without first relinquishing the mandate obtained under the party’s ticket.”
The defection letters of five LP lawmakers, who crossed carpet to the ruling APC were on Thursday read on the floor of the Green Chamber by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas.
The members of the House who defected compromised Tochukwu Okere (Imo); Iyawe Esosa (Edo); Bassey Akiba (Cross River); Daulyop Fom (Plateau) and Donatus Mathew (Kaduna).
