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JUST IN: APC gains two-third majority in House of Reps
The All Progressives Congress (APC) comfortably gained two third majority of the House of Representatives on Thursday with the defection of six members of the opposition.
Five members of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) from the South East and one member of the Labour Party (LP) from Plateau State defected to the APC at Thursday’s plenary.
Those who defected are Daniel Asama Ado (Plateau); Chidi Mark Obetta (Enugu); Phillips Anayo Owuegbu (Enugu); Nnaji Nnolim (Enugu); Denis Agbo (Enugu) and Matthew Nwogu (Imo).
The defection of the six members brings the number or APC members in the House to 242 members, leaving the PDP with 74 members.
In their separate letters read on the floor of the House by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen, they all alluded to lingering leadership crisis in the two parties as reasons for their defections.
National Chairman of the APC, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda; Enugu Governor, Peter Mbah and former Minister of Defence, Fedelia Njeze among others witnessed the defection.
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