Umahi’s Sack: Cross River Awaits Ayade’s Sack Soon – PDP

The Cross River Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State, has expressed the belief that the sack of Governor Ben Ayade by the court is also very imminent.

This is coming in reaction to a Federal High Court ruling which sacked governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state for defecting from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressive Congress.

The Cross River state chairman of PDP, Venatius Ikem who stated this, said: “We have been in Court for several months on the same claims like those of the PDP in Ebonyi State and we are being represented by the same lawyers, too.

“Indeed, the matter has been set for hearing.

“So, it is not a matter of if we are ‘thinking in that direction’, it is a matter of when our own judgment will be delivered.”

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On the National Judicial Council (NJC) which Umahi has ran to for protection and review of the judgment, Ikem said NJC does not have such power.

“The NJC is not a Court. It doesn’t and has no power to review judgments of courts. Only the appropriate Superior Courts have jurisdiction to review judgements of inferior or lower courts,” he said.