Six members of the Kogi House of Assembly, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), NAN reports.
According to the report, the defectors cited “factional squabbles” in the PDP as their reason for dumping the party in a joint notification letter to the Speaker, Umar Imam.
6 Kogi Assembly PDP legislators defect to APC
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Mr. Imam, while reading the letter on the floor of the House on Thursday, March 16, named the defectors as John Abah (Ibaji), Adoke Bello (Adavi), Kolawole Atthew (Kabba-Bunu), Ahmed Mohammed (Ankpa 1), Victor Omofaiye (Ijumu) and Kekere Sani-Abdulkareem (Okehi).
The legislators said they were forced to move to a more stable political group due to the factional squabbles, both at the national and state levels, which has torn the PDP into shreds.
“The PDP has two National Chairmen – Sen. Ali Modu-Sheriff and Sen. Ahmed Makarfi- whose existence for over 10 months has left us uncomfortable, politically.
“In view of the unfortunate division and its negative implications, we have no option than to defect to the APC to be able to accomplish our missions of bringing government closer to our people,’’ the letter further stated.
Imam added: “What is important is the peace and unity that we enjoy. The House remains one. We are all gentlemen and have to be focused toward what we can do in the remaining period.”
It was gathered that with the defection of the six members, the PDP, formerly the majority party in the House, has become the minority with nine members to APC’s 16 in the 25-member Assembly.
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