The wave of the political tsunami sweeping through the Plateau State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), seems unstoppable with the developing spree of judicial pronouncement on its lack of “Structure”.
Few days ago, the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, had sacked from office two Senators and Five House of Representatives members at both the Green and Red chambers of the National Assembly representing Plateau State, under the platform of the PDP.
Although this judgments delivered by the Court caused sponsored protest by faceless groups in Plateau and the Federal capital Abuja, the protest did not hinder the Court of Appeal from extending the sacking spree to the sitting Governor, Caleb Mutfwang (Esq) and some members of the State House of Assembly.
As at the last count, over Four (4) members have received their “Red Cards” from the Court of Appeal
With the level of political turmoil and the tsunami hitting the PDP which earlier had 15 members in the Plateau State House of Assembly, that gave the PDP the advantage to produce the Speaker of the Assembly out of the 24 members of the Assembly, the current judgments have started to influence the inflow of resignation letters from the Principal Office of the House to the Clerk of the House from PDP members.
The most recent is the resignation of the Speaker of the House, Rt Hon. Moses Sule, the member representing Mikang State Constituency and a member of the PDP with his Deputy.
The fact remains that the National/State Houses of Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal in Jos had earlier nullified the election of Moses Sule as the member representing Mikang State Constituency.
The Tribunal that sat in Jos and chaired by Hon. Justice Tukur had ordered INEC to withdraw the Certificate of Return previously issued to Moses and issue a new one to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Hon. Daniel Nanlong, who scored the second-highest number of votes in the election owing to the PDP’s lack of structure.
While these Judgments are coming in piecemeal, the suspension of the Chairmen of the 17 Local Government of Plateau State by Caleb Mutfwang (Esq) is still an issue pending at the Plateau State High Court presided over by Hon. Justice Samchi.
From the developments, it would be a wise decision for the Members of the Transition Committees planted by Governor Caleb in the 17 Local Government to start reasoning that their time is up.
It would be expected that individually the TIC Members should also start tendering their resignation letters in a humble way to save their faces and respect for future political engagements.
As the two institutions that had empowered their existence have started losing their political relevance and authority to so suspend the Chairmen.
A sack from office may not be a good record for the TIC Members.
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