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The All Progressives Congress has applied to be join as a co-defendant in two pending suits in which the Peoples Democratic Party asked an Abuja Federal High Court to order the Senate President, David Mark, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to declare vacant the seats of 12 Senators and 42 members of the House of Representatives who defected to the party.

The PDP also asked the court to order the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately organise and conduct elections to fill the seats of the defected lawmakers.

The defected lawmakers have opposed the suits, asking the court to dismiss the applications filed by the PDP.

At the continuation of hearing on Thursday, the APC informed the court of its wish to be joined as a defendant alongside its new members in the National Assembly.

APCs request to be joined in the suits was contained in motions filed by its counsel, James Ocholi, SAN, which asked the court for an order granting leave to the All Progressive Congress to be joined as a co-defendant.

The party in the same vein asked the court to order the PDP to serve it with the originating processes in the two suits within 48 hours after being joined as a co-defendant.

Stating the grounds upon which it was asking the court to join it in the suit, the APC stressed that the defected lawmakers, who the PDP wants to sack from the National Assembly, are its members.

The defendants are members of the All Progressives Congress, the party the plaintiff alleges they have defected to, the party said.

The APC argued that justice demands that the party be joined as a party in the suits since the lawmakers are registered members of the party.

Also, in an affidavit in support of the motion, the APC insisted that the PDPs bid to sack the lawmakers would affect it because the seats currently occupied by the legislators in the National Assembly belonged to it.

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APC applies to join PDPs suit against defected lawmakers