He said any political appointee seeking any elective position should tender his/her resignation letter on or before noon on Thursday.
The Cross River governor is himself seeking to hold consultations over his own 2023 presidential ambition.
The gang members were said to have been responsible for the shooting of Governor Ben Ayade’s Security Adviser, Ani Esin, in 2018.
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“We have never lost an election in Cross River since 1999 when Nigeria returned to democracy; a defection is not a loss.”
Mr Taiwo, while delivering the judgment, held that going by “the principle of stare decisis (judicial precedence),” he was bound by the earlier judgment of the appellate court.
The former deputy national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, had obtained a form to contest the national vice-chairman (South-South).
The judge ruled that the argument of the lawmakers that there was rancour in the PDP was a ploy to mislead the court.
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court will deliver judgment in a suit filed by the PDP against Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River.
The sacked lawmakers comprised 18 members from the State House of Assembly and two from the House of Representatives.
Delivering judgment, Justice Taiwo Taiwo said, “We cannot continue in sin and expect grace to abound.”
