The Gail of defections rocking the National Assembly crept to the House of Representatives just now as 37 lawmakers under the All Progressives Congress (APC), dumped the Party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the African Democratic Party (ADP).
Announcing the letter of their defection on the floor of the House at the plenary, Speaker Yakubu Dogara said that 32 of the lawmakers defected to the PDP while 4 defected the ADP. respectively and as the loud ovation that followed the defection was in progress, another APC lawmaker, Hon Okey Jev, the Chairman Committee on Rules and Business, from the APC announced his defection to the ADC
Some of the defectors to the PDP are Honourable Aminu Shehu Shagari, Funke Adedoyin, Zakari Mohammed, Bode Ayorinde, Segun Ogunwusi and Sunday Adepoju.
Four of the members from Oyo state under APC defected to the ADC.
The Speaker said that the lawmakers cited the division in their State Chapters of the APC as the reasons for their leaving the Party to pursue their political careers from where there were divisions
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