The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lost at least four senators and three members of the House of Representatives to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
In their resignation letters, which were read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during Wednesday’s plenary session, the members stated that they were leaving the PDP due to irreconcilable differences.
Akpabio instructed the Senate Clerk to record their defections in writing.
With the APC now controlling 70 seats and the People’s democratic part, 28 seats, the move has altered the Senate’s power dynamics. With five seats, the LP, NNPP, SDP, and APGA are the other parties in the chamber.
Speaker Tajudeen Abbas of the House of Representatives said during Wednesday’s session that three PDP members had defected to the APC.
The defections were processed and officially recorded during Wednesday’s parliamentary sessions in both chambers of the National Assembly.
