By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The only New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) member left at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly (NSHA), Hon. Musa Ibrahim Abubakar, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State. This is coming just three weeks after his counterpart and member...
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Mr Dayyabu Garga, a Commissioner in the administration of former Plateau governor Simon Lalong, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress(APC). Garga, who was commissioner in two ministries – local government and chieftaincy affairs as well as urban development – and later became Chairman, Kanam Local Government,...
By Danjuma Joseph Lafia Member representing Toto/Gadabuke constituency at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Mohammed Garba Isimbabi, has defected from New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaker of the assembly, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, announced this while reading Hon. Isimbabi’s defection letter during...
Sen. Nicholas Tofowomo, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ally of former Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, has said he would remain in the party in spite of the massive defection of some of his colleagues to All Progressives Congress (APC). Tofowomo, who represented...
Three out of the four opposition members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Kebbi House of Assembly have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that defectors are: Umar Na’amore, Argungu Constituency; Hashimu Usman, Yauri Constituency and Yusuf...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday received former Senate President, Pius Anyim, who recently defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking to State House correspondents after his presentation to Tinubu by Gov. Hope Uzodinma, Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF),...
The Deputy Governor of Edo, Philip Shaibu on Saturday officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Shaibu alongside other members of the PDP legacy coalition group announced his defection in Benin at the inauguration of the National Campaign Council of the...
Ten out of the 13 governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have so far arrived the Enugu State Government House for the party’s Governors Forum meeting on Wednesday. The governors were Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Umo Eno of Akwa-Ibom, Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta,...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has described the defection of Senator Pius Anyim to the APC, as “a huge blessing”. Ganduje’s excitement was captured in a statement by Mr Edwin Olofu, his Chief Press Secretary. The statement issued on Sunday in...
Former Senate President, Pius Anyim, alongside former gubernatorial candidates of opposition parties in Ebonyi on Saturday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Anyim, formerly of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), defected to the APC with some of his supporters during the grand finale of the APC campaign...
Hundreds of members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) on Thursday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at Mainland Constituency II in Lagos State . Receiving the detectors, Mr Rasheed Shabi, a member of the State House of Assembly (Mainland ll) ,said...
A Peoples Democratic Party chieftain and former Chairman of the party in Lagos State, Chief Segun Adewale, has said he is dumping his party to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Adewale, popularly known as Aeroland, said this at a news conference on Saturday in Lagos. The News...
No fewer than 1,300 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful in Anambra have formally defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The defectors, who came from across the state, were received by the Gov. Chukwuma Soludo at a welcome ceremony in Awka Soludo urged the new...
A High Court in Port Harcourt on Thursday ordered that the seats of the 25 lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), vacant, pending the determination of a suit. Justice Charles Wali gave the order in Suit No PHC/1512/CS/2024, filed...
A lawmaker at the Ebonyi House of Assembly, Chief Celestine Ogba law. (LP-Onicha East) has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ogba announced his defection at a ceremony in the state APC secretariat on Saturday in Abakalikii in the presence of party leaders. He said he was...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the 27 lawmakers at the Rivers State House of Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lost their seats forever. The party said this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba in Abuja....
The two members of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the Abia State House of Assembly on Tuesday formally defected to the Labour Party (LP). The defectors, Mr Iheanacho Nwogu, representing Osisioma North State Constituency, and Mr Fine Ahuama, representing Osisioma South State Constituency, were received by Governor...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, has debunked a media report claiming that he is planning to decamp from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with the intention of running for the office...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – A former Majority Leader of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Philip Dasun, has officially left the All Progressives Congress (APC) to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State. Dasun, a known ally of former Governor Simon Lalong, announced his...
Former Speaker of Abia House of Assembly, Mr Chinedum Orji, has offered reasons he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaking in an interactive session with newsmen in Umuahia on Wednesday, Orji said that he did not join APC to fight for...