The Government Director of the Coverage and Authorized Advocacy Centre, PLAC, Clement Nwankwo, has mentioned it isn’t constitutional for elected legislators to defect to different political events.
Nwankwo made the assertion on Wednesday whereas responding to questions in an interview on Politics At present, a programme on Channels Tv.
“I’ve been concerned within the constitution-making course of. Ranging from the 1999 structure within the Fourth Republic, I’ve been concerned in each stage of the modification.
“This alteration is going down as a result of every time you’ve alteration, the politicians devise a approach of subverting it and so will provide you with new measures and provisions on the way to cowl and keep away from these manipulations by politicians.
“You speak about decamping from one social gathering to a different, as an illustration, it’s very clear within the structure. If you’re a legislator, you shouldn’t constitutionally run off to a different social gathering. The structure forbids it,” he mentioned.
