Six Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members within the Home of Representatives on Tuesday defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
That is simply as two lawmakers from the Labour Party (LP), particularly Hon. Obetta Chidi and Hon. Dennis Agbo each from Enugu State defected to the PDP.
The decampees from the PDP to APC embrace the longest serving member of the Home, Hon. Nickolas Mutu and 5 of his colleagues from Delta state – Hons Victor Nwokolo, Thomas Ereyitom, Nnamdi Ezechi, Julius Pondi, and Ukodhiko Jonathan.
Their notices of defection have been conveyed by separate letters learn by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen at resumed plenary after Ramadan and Easter breaks.
Of their respective letters, the lawmakers cited inside crises and unresolved divisions inside their events as the explanations for his or her defections.
Unresolved wranglings throughout the PDP and LP have seen a depletion of the events’ ranks within the Nationwide Meeting.
The nationwide leaderships of the 2 events have been beguiled by a prolonged authorized management disaster.
Regardless of the ruling of the Supreme Court docket on their crises, the warring camps have refused to again down as every camp insists the court docket judgement have been favorable to them.
