Defection: ACN leaders move to save Boroffice

By Taiwo Adisa

Prof. Ajayi Boroffice

Leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) have started mounting pressures on the leadership of the Senate in a bid to stop the removal of Senator Robert Boroffice on the account of his defection from Labour Party. The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, had, on October 16, submitted a report which set the stage for the planned sack of Senator Boroffice on the account of his violation of Section 68(1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution, which forbids lawmakers to cross carpet.
The section indicates that a lawmaker can only defect from the party on which platform he was elected if there is a division in that party.
Senator Boroffice was originally elected on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), but decided to defect to the ACN in January.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in August, wrote the Senator indicating that his planned defection from LP was not backed by the law, as there was no evidence of division in the LP.
The Senate Committee report also affirmed the position of INEC, thus setting the stage for the removal of the Ondo North senator.
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