Senator Bello Hayatu and 50 others, including members of the House of Representatives who defected to the APC, has gone to court to stop their seats from being declared vacant.
The Lawmakers are equally asking the court to restrain INEC from conducting any bye-elections at filling their seats.
In the hearing, in Abuja Hugh Court, PDP insisted that the seats of the defected members must be declared vacant by the the leadership of National Assembly.
PDP maintained that the lawmakers had failed to show that they were qualified to benefit from the provisions of section 68 (1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, which allows for such defection in cases of division within political parties.
Justice Mohammed adjourned the matter to January 29 because all the parties had not filled their processes.
It would be recalled that 5 PDP governors and 37 lawmakers from the House of Representative in the National Assembly defected to All Progressive Party over crisis rocking the party under the chairmanship of Bamanga Tukor.
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