Gov Amaechi Is More Brilliant Than Jonathan – David-West.

Removal of G-5 Governors will cause anarchy in Nigeria.
They are talking nonsense. They cannot do it. PDP cannot declare any seat of a governor that defect vacant.

Former Minster of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, has warned the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against using the judiciary to declare vacant the seats of its five defecting governors, who recently joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The academic told Sunday Independent, that any court that allows itself to be used for such illegality was not only irresponsible, but reckless.

He added that such development may plunge the country into chaos, as the 1999 Constitution was very clear on defection of governors and parliamentarians.


Continuing, he said: “Pardon my immodesty, I’m saying this not because I was one of the 50 men that drafted the constitution. I read the constitution again to bring out the section of the constitution that make nonsense of what they are talking about.

“They are talking rubbish. They are talking nonsense. They cannot do it. PDP cannot declare any seat of a governor that defect vacant.

“I refer to Section 68 and Section 109 of the Constitution. It’s clear that if there is division within the party and certain members of that party feel that they don’t agree with what the party is doing, they can go to any party and still maintain their tenure till the end.

“Originally, it was meant for only governors. Then the lawmakers also wanted to be part of it, so they amended it for the lawmakers too,” he said

When asked whether the earlier ruling of an Abuja High Court, which recognised the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP as the authentic PDP could not be used by lawyers to argue that there is no faction in the PDP, he said: “Did that same court say the G7 is proscribed?

”That judgment was open ended. They said there is only one PDP; the court is right because the PDP is registered with INEC. 
“The New PDP was not registered. So the court is right. At the same time, the court was very careful. It didn’t say by this we now proscribe the New PDP. So, New PDP exists. “Even the judge tacitly recognised that there is a faction in PDP, that is why he said there is one PDP registered with INEC. It never said by this, we hereby proscribe the New PDP,” he said.

David-West added: “They (G7) are very clever. They first established that there is a faction.

“They created the faction and stayed long enough, thereby they are protected by the constitution.

“The moment they left, they never said they have created a new party. They stayed and always said they were members of the New PDP. They are very clever.”