Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, and his deputy have been sacked by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to the court, the duo should immediately vacate their offices, saying that their defections were unlawful, unconstitutional, null, and void.
While delivering his judgment on the matter, Justice Inyang Ekwo on Tuesday ordered Umahi and his deputy to immediately stop parading themselves as governor and deputy governor of Ebonyi State.
The judge held that the votes that brought them to office belonged to the PDP and that they cannot hold on to the votes having decided to jettison the party that nominated them.
Justice Ekwo also held that the votes cast for PDP in the March 9, 2019 governorship election are not transferable to the APC that failed in the election.