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Another member of the House of Representatives, Samuel Onuigbo, on Thursday, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party and joined the All Progressives Congress.
Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, read Onuigbo’s letter of defection in plenary.
It was the fourth defection from opposition parties to the ruling APC in recent times.
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, who hails from Onuoha’s home state of Abia, joined those who came to witness the defection in the House.
In his letter, Onuigbo said, “The past months have witnessed intense crises bothering in tyranny arising from lack of internal democracy and downright impunity in the Peoples Democratic Party. These crises have seriously distracted genuine leaders from effectively carrying out their primary responsibility of providing leadership to our people who, as it is, have been starved of progressive leadership.”