APC vs PDP: Akpabio announces defection of four senators

• Four PDP senators person dumped the enactment and announced their authoritative defection to the ruling APC during plenary connected Wednesday, July 23
• Senate President Godswill Akpabio work the defection missive connected the level of the Red Chamber arsenic they cited an unending interior situation successful the PDP
• According to the letter, 2 of the senators were from Osun State, portion the different 2 are from Akwa Ibom State

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced the defection of 4 senators from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during plenary connected Wednesday, July 23.

Akpabio reads the defection letters of the senators successful abstracted letters successful the chamber. The defecting lawmakers cited irreconcilable differences successful the starring absorption PDP arsenic the reasons for their defection.

Four senators dump PDP for the APC during plenary Photo Credit: @SPNigeria
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Akpabio asks Clerk to papers defection letter

After speechmaking the letter, Akpabio directed that the letters should beryllium documented by the Clerk of the Senate. The decamping senators are Senators Francis Fadahunsi, Osun East and Oluwole Olubiyi, Osun Central. Others are Senators Aniekan Bassey, Akwa Ibom North East and Samson Ekong, Akwa Ibom South.

With the development, the caller creation of the Senate showed that the APC present has 73 senators, 26 inactive stay successful the PDP, the Labour Party has one, portion the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has two. The New Nigeria Peoples Party and the All Progressive Grand Alliance person 1 legislator each.

This happened amid alignment and realignment by politicians up of the 2027 wide election. In the realignment up of the adjacent wide predetermination is the erstwhile Vice President-Atiku Abubakar-led coalition, which precocious adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) arsenic its platform.

Opposition leaders gathered to follow ADC

During the unveiling of the ADC, respective absorption leaders, including Atiku, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Rotimi Amaechi and Nasir El-Rufai, who were erstwhile governors of Rivers and Kaduna states and ex-leaders successful the APC, were present.

Since the result of the 2023 election, Atiku has consistently held that the mode to decision the ruling APC and President Bola Tinubu was for the absorption leaders to travel unneurotic nether 1 umbrella successful the 2027 wide election.

This led to the enactment of the coalition, but it was yet to beryllium cleared who would beryllium the statesmanlike campaigner of the conjugation arsenic Atiku, Peter Obi and Amaechi person expressed involvement successful becoming the party's flagbearer.

Also, Amaechi and Obi person advocated that the statesmanlike summons should beryllium zoned to the confederate bloc of the coalition, portion they besides vowed to relinquish powerfulness aft their archetypal tenure and promised not to question a 2nd word successful office.

Atiku Abubakar-led conjugation expresses readiness to sack President Bola Tinubu successful 2027 Photo Credit: @officialABAT
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APC acceptable to person different nationalist chairman

Legit.ng earlier reported that President Bola Tinubu's curate of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has been tipped arsenic 1 of the apt adjacent APC nationalist chairman.

Ex-Nasarawa Governor Tanko Al-Makura is different APC chieftain from the north-central being pushed guardant to capable the vacuum near by Abdullahi Ganduje, who resigned successful June.

Sources privy to the improvement wrong the ruling enactment disclosed the improvement arsenic the APC prepares to clasp its NEC gathering connected Thursday, July 24.

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Source: Legit.ng