Speaker asked to produce evidence of Chinda’s defection to APC, resignation as Minority Leader

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbass, has been asked to nutrient records of proceedings successful the Green Chamber to amusement that a missive announcing Kingsley Chinda’s defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and resignation arsenic Minority Leader, was work connected the level of the House. 

The petition was made by the Incorporated Trustees of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, who precocious filed a suit asking an Abuja Federal High Court to halt the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising Chinda arsenic a governorship campaigner of the APC.

Chinda, an state of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, minister, Nyesom Wike, emerged the governorship campaigner of the APC successful the May 21, 2026, superior election, pursuing the last-minute withdrawal of different contestants – incumbent Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Tonye Cole and Alabo Dakorinama George-Kelly.

However, the Incorporated Trustees of the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Pra...