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Umahi: Why Govs Can’t Be Removed From Office For Defecting – Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer

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Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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Chief Mike Ozekhome, lawyer to leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has faulted the ruling of an Abuja Federal High Court that sacked Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy, Dr Eric Igwe.

The lead Counsel to Kanu claimed that a governor and his deputy cannot be removed from office for changing political parties.

This is coming after Justice Inyang Ekwo sacked Umahi and Igwe for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Reacting, Ezekhome, in a statement he signed, said: “The appellate courts have since held again and again that votes cast in an election belong to a live candidate and not the political party which merely serves as a vehicle that enthrone candidates.

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“The implication of section 141 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) is that while a candidate at an election must be sponsored by a political party, the candidate who stands to win or lose the election is the candidate and not the political party that sponsored him.

“I, therefore, most respectfully submit (as held by appellate courts) that a political party is merely a vehicle in which a candidate can ride to contest an election and nothing more. The votes belong to the candidate and not the political party. The political party ceases to have any considerable relevance or insolence over a person that has won an election and has been sworn in as a legislator, Governor or President of the entire people, who are far larger than a mere political party.”

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, pointed out that Section 308 of the Nigerian Constitution grants absolute immunity to the President, Vice President, Governor and Deputy Governor while in office.

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According to him: “Consequently, no civil or criminal proceedings could ever sustain against this set of persons, whilst still holding office.

“Going by the above plethora of authorities, I humbly submit that a Governor already sworn in cannot be removed by the Federal High Court through an Originating Summons. It will surely be set aside on appeal.”

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