Ikenga Ugochinyere nominated as Reps Minority Leader

The lawmaker representing Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency of Imo State successful the House of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has been nominated arsenic the Minority Leader of the House.

Ugochinyere was nominated by 61 members of the House from antithetic governmental parties.

It volition beryllium recalled that Ugochinyere defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the Action Peoples Party, APP, successful January.

DAILY POST reports that pursuing the development, Ugochinyere volition win Kingsley Chinda, the lawmaker representing Obio/Akpor national constituency successful Rivers State, who vacated the number person presumption aft defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and emerging arsenic the party’s governorship campaigner for Rivers State.

In a missive dated June 3, 2026, and addressed to the Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, the lawmakers, comprising members of the African Democratic Congress, ADC; Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC; All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA; Peoples Redemption Party, PRP; Lab...