You Can’t Suspend Lone APC Lawmaker, Court Tells Kwara Assembly

Buhari, APC a disappointment, I score them very low – Kwara Speaker, Ahmad

Justice T.S. Umar, of an Ilorin High Court, Kwara State has restraint, on Tuesday, the Kwara State House of Assembly from suspending a member representing Balogun/Ojomu constituency of Offa in Offa Local Government Area of the State, Mr. Saheed Popoola.

The only All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker in the state House of Assembly have been placed under suspension by the house for his refusal to defect from the party to the People Democratic Party (PDP).

The lawmakers had left APC for Peoples Democratic Party after Senate President Bukola Saraki, other members of the National Assembly from the state, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed and their loyalists did the same.

It was learnt that the Assembly had commenced a process to investigate allegations of certificate and forgery allegations preferred against Popoola. It was alleged that some members had threatened to suspend him.

Popoola consequently sued the Assembly, the Speaker and other members of the House.