The Senate
on Wednesday swore in Isah Lau as a lawmaker representing Taraba North
Senatorial District.
The swearing
in ceremony was conducted shortly before the day’s plenary began.
The Supreme
Court had on Friday sacked Umar Danladi from the senatorial seat and ordered
the Senate President to swear in Lau as his replacement.
The apex
court also ordered Danladi and the lawmaker representing Vandeikya/Konshisha
Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Herman Hembe, who
were sacked same day by the same court, to refund all the salaries and/or
emoluments which they had collected while occupying their respective seats in
the National Assembly.
In the lead
judgment of a five-man panel headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice
Walter Onnoghen, the apex court ordered the Independent National Electoral
Commission to withdraw the certificates of return issued to them.
It also
ordered INEC to issue fresh certificate of return to Isah Lau to replace
Danladi as the representative of Taraba North Senatorial District in the
Senate.
The apex
court held that Danladi of the Peoples Democratic Party was not proper
candidates of the party in the last legislative election.
Justice
Amina Augie, in the lead judgment of a five-man panel in the appeal by Lau,
found that Danladi was not qualified to have been made a candidate of the PDP
in the last senatorial election.
Lau, who
came second in the primary held on December 11, 2016, challenged the
announcement of Umar, who was by then sacked as Acting Governor of Taraba State
by the Supreme Court, as the winner of the primary.
Before
judgment could be delivered in the case, the PDP replaced Lau with Danladi
after giving the governorship ticket to Darius Ishaku.
Lau pressed
on with his case, arguing that the substitution was unlawful.
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