2027: Fresh defections as El-Rufai, other lawmakers dump APC, PDP, ADC to NDC

Fresh defections person deed the House of Representatives arsenic 5 lawmakers near the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to articulation the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, and the African Democratic Congress, ADC, up of the 2027 wide elections.

Among those who defected is Mohammed El-Rufai, the lad of erstwhile Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai and the typical for Kaduna North Federal Constituency.

El-Rufai officially transitioned from the APC to the NDC during a plenary league connected Thursday, a determination that governmental analysts suggest further indicates the deepening disagreement betwixt the El-Rufai governmental faction and the ruling party.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, work the letters of defection successful the chamber.

Mohammed El-Rufai’s departure follows months of speculation regarding his governmental prospects, peculiarly aft his father, Nasir El-Rufai, repeatedly criticized President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

The erstwhile politician of Kaduna, erstwhile seen arsenic 1 of Tinubu’s astir formidable allies wrong the APC, has precocious accused the ruling enactment of neglecting interior ideology and margi...