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A member of the House of Representatives from Ondo State, Peter Makinde, has defected from the African Democratic Congress to the All Progressives Congress.
Makinde, in his letter of defection, read to members at the plenary on Tuesday by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, blamed the defection on the alleged division in the ADC.
“You’re welcome to the progressive party,” Gbajabiamila said after reading the letter.
Several members of the Peoples Democratic Party, however, screamed point of order.
A leader of the minority caucus, Nicholas Ossai, who was allowed to speak, however, protested against the defection, stating that it breached Section 68 of the Constitution.
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Two members of the House of Representatives announced their defections at the plenary on Tuesday.
While Aliyu Ya’u (Peoples Democratic Party, Kano), defected to join the All Progressives Congress, Shiddi Danjuma (APGA, Taraba) also defected to the APC.
The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, read their separate letters of defection during Tuesday’s plenary.
The Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu; and Deputy Minority Leader, Toby Okechukwu, faulted the defections arguing that the defectors misled the house by claiming they left their former parties because of a crisis.
Gbajabiamila noted their points but went on to declare that with Yau’s defection, all of Kano’s 24 members now belong to the APC.
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has narrated how he was advised to sack Aruma Oteh as the director-general of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2012 to avoid trouble with the house of representatives.
Speaking at a book presentation in Abuja on Tuesday, Jonathan said some of his associates had suggested the removal of Oteh in order to appease the federal lawmakers whom Oteh had accused of corruption.
Oteh, who was at the helm of affairs at SEC from 2010 to 2015, had at the time alleged that the leadership of the house committee on capital market solicited N44 million bribe from SEC.
A former lawmaker representing Kogi-West senatorial district in the National
Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye, yesterday tendered unreserved apology to former president Goodluck Jonathan for campaigning against him in the run-
up to the 2015 general elections.
Melaye made this apology to the former president at the public presentation of ‘Dear President Goodluck Jonathan’, a book by a journalist, Bonaventure Phillips Melah, in Abuja.
To the ex-lawmaker, his apology is borne out of what he described as the
state of the Nigerian nation, coupled with what the ex-President achieved
while in office.
“I Senator Dino Melaye, I want to say openly here that after many things that have happened and events that have unfolded in recent times, I want to say openly here that I am sorry.