BREAKING: Kwankwaso, Melaye, 13 other senators dump APC for PDP
President of
the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has read a letter from 13 members of the All
Progressives’ senators declaring their defection from the ruling All
Progressives Congress to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
The
lawmakers include Rabi’u Kwankwaso (Kano-Central), Dino Melaye (Kogi-West),
Adesoji Akanbi (Oyo-South), Monsurat Sunmonu (Oyo-Central), Rafiu Ibrahim
(Kwara-South), Suleiman Hunkuyi (Kaduna-North), and Lanre Tejuoso
(Ogun-Central).
Others are
Usman Nafada (Gombe), Ibrahim Dambaba (Sokoto), Mohammed Shittu (Jigawa) Isa
Misau (Bauchi) Suleiman Nazif (Bauchi) Shaaba Lafiagi (Kwara) and Barnabas
Gemade (Benue).
Also,
Senator Abdul-Azeez Murtala-Nyako (Adamawa) who had earlier dumped the APC for
the African Democratic Congress, also formalised his defection.
Saraki,
while responding to the plea by the Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, for
the defectors to rescind their decision, lambasted the APC.
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