Court sacks Plateau Speaker, another PDP lawmaker

<p>The Speaker of Plateau State House of Assembly, Moses Sule has been sacked by the state election petitions tribunal.</p>, <p>The election petition tribunal sitting in Jos, sacked the lawmaker, who was elected on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s platform in the last election.</p>, <p>He was sacked alongside Danjuma Azi, a member representing Jos North West constituency in the assembly</p>, <p>The tribunal declared the former majority leader of the house, Hon. Naanlong Daniel and Hon. Mark Na’ah, all of the APC as winners of the March 18 elections.</p>, <p>The petitioner had challenged the sponsorship of the Sule and Azi on the grounds that the PDP was not qualified to participate in the election for lack of party structure.</p>, <p>Delivering the judgment, the tribunal led by Muhammad Tukur said PDP was not qualified to sponsor the respondents for the election.</p>, <p>He held that as the party did not have structure, “nothing can stand on nothing”.</p>