Tag: Court sacks popular Senator

Senator Bassey Akpan was removed from the Senate as the senator representing the Uyo Senatorial District by an Abuja-based Federal High Court after he joined the Young Progressives Party, or YPP. In the decision on Friday, the presiding judge, Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu, declared Senator Akpan’s seat vacant and commanded INEC to hold a bye…