37 members of the House of Representatives have defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Thirty-three members of the All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives have just defected to the Peoples Democratic Party.
Four others in the APC from Oyo State also defected to the African Democratic Congress.
This is coming barely a few hours after 15 APC senators decamped to the PDP.
In the defection letter read by Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House, the lawmakers cited fictionalization and division in the party as their reason for leaving.
The details include 33 lawmakers from Kano, Sokoto, Kwara, Kogi and other states, who defected from the APC to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The four others are from Oyo State who defected from the APC to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
The defection was announced a while ago by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.
The announcement, however, threw the plenary into commotion with shouts of PDP, APC, Change, Sai Baba, etc, renting the air.
All attempts by the Speaker to restore normalcy to the House has so far proved abortive as members of both parties engage in shouting bouts.
Dogara described the whole commotion as the “beauty of democracy.”
Details later…
