Deputy Minority Whip of the Senate, Senator Ibrahim Danbaba, has decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Newsbreak reports.
The lawmaker’s decision to team up with the APC was announced in a letter read at the start of plenary by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday.
The defection of Danbaba, who represents Sokoto South in the red chamber, brings the total number of APC Senators in the 9th National Assembly to 71, and PDP 37.
The lawmaker, in his letter, stated that his decision to leave the PDP was due to the lingering and crisis at the zonal level.
Senator Danbaba’s letter reads in part: “The situation at the state level has not helped matters either as depicted by lack of political sanity, focus and credible leadership.
“I have in APC, the political ideology in consonance with my personal political philosophy. This Ideology also seems the best suited to meet the expectations and aspirations of my constituents.
Attempts by Senators Philip Aduda (PDP, Federal Capital Territory, FCT) and Lilian Uche Ekwunife (PDP, Anambra Central), to rely on point of orders to halt Danbaba’s defection were unsuccessful as Lawan ruled them out of order.
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