{"id":133312,"date":"2023-12-20T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/20\/27-lawmakers-have-lost-their-seats-falana-faults-tinubus-intervention\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T13:10:03","slug":"27-lawmakers-have-lost-their-seats-falana-faults-tinubus-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/20\/27-lawmakers-have-lost-their-seats-falana-faults-tinubus-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;27 Lawmakers Have Lost Their Seats&#8221; \u2013 Falana Faults Tinubu\u2019s Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s intervention in Rivers State\u2019s political crisis must be grounded in the provisions of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that Falana made this known in a statement made available to the public on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI agree with former Governor Tunde Fashola SAN, who has said that President Tinubu has no constitutional role in resolving the political crisis in Ondo and Rivers States. Therefore, the intervention of the President in both cases is purely advisory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seats of the cross carpeting members have been declared vacant by the Speaker known to law. To that extent, the Independent National Electoral Commission is mandatorily required to conduct the by-election once the ex parte order issued by the Federal High Court last Friday is quashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if all the cases in the Rivers State High Court and the Federal High Court are withdrawn in line with the advice of the President, it is submitted that all actions taken by the Speaker recognised by the Rivers State High Court remain valid, including his pronouncement on the vacant seats of the 27 cross carpeting members of the House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Ben Bruce Hails Tinubu For Intervening In Rivers Political Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, only a court of law is constitutionally competent to set aside the pronouncement of the Speaker which is anchored on Section 109 of the Constitution. Furthermore, as the Speaker has not been removed by the required number of legislators, a presidential directive cannot remove him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\">\n<p>\u201cGiven the foregoing, the President and all the parties involved in finding political solutions to the crisis in Rivers State are advised to turn to the Constitution for guidance without any further delay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1583487679\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s intervention in Rivers State\u2019s political crisis must be grounded in the provisions of the Constitution. 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