Labour Party (LP) has misplaced one other member within the Home of Representatives from Plateau State, Hon Alfred Ajang, to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This got here barely 48 hours after the LP member representing Barkin Ladi/Riyom federal constituency of Plateau State, Hon. Dalyop Chollom, defected to the APC on Tuesday.
Ajang who represents Jos South/Jos East federal constituency of Plateau State introduced his defection by way of a letter learn by the speaker of the Home of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas at resumed plenary on Thursday.
This brings the variety of LP lawmakers who dumped their get together for APC inside one week to 6 as 4 members of the opposition get together within the Home – Tochukwu Okere (Imo), Donatus Mathew (Kaduna), Bassey Akiba (Cross River), and Iyawe Esosa (Edo) joined the ruling APC final Thursday.
Within the letter of defection, Ajang cited the disaster within the Labour Party and the necessity for realignment with the nationwide improvement agenda of the APC underneath the management of former President Muhammadu Buhari and now President Bola Tinubu as his causes for becoming a member of the ruling get together.
He additionally mentioned the defection was knowledgeable by his admiration for the infrastructural and {economic} improvement strides of the APC-led federal authorities and the necessity to replicate the identical in his constituency in addition to the restricted affect of LP within the governance construction.
