….As Zamfara Senator resigns from PDP
By Gabriel Atumeyi
365Daily – Two members of the House of Representatives from Cross Rivers State, Lego Idagbo and Michael Etiaba, have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, announced the defection at the plenary on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.
However, the Deputy Minority Leader of the House, Toby Okechukwu, and others opposition members, kicked against the move.
They argued that their defection was against the law, with Okechukwu noting that the House had added to the series of breaches of the law by accepting their defection.
Gbajabiamila, however, argued that the PDP members were not in the position to determine the circumstances of their defection, noting that only a Court could do that.
There has been a gale of defection in the PDP recently, with some youths in the party calling for the National Chairman of the party to step aside.
Recall that the Governor of Cross Rivers State, Ben Ayade, recently defected from the PDP to the APC recently.
Many of his aides and political office holders in the state, as well as elected representatives, joined him in the move to the APC.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, the Senator representing Zamfara Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Hassan Muhammed Nasiha, also announced his resignation from the PDP.
The lawmaker announced his resignation in a letter read on the floor of the Red Chamber by Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, at the resumption of plenary on Tuesday.
Senator Muhammed, in the letter, did not disclose the party he was joining but he is among the lawmakers from Zamfara State expected to follow the state Governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, to the APC.