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Advertisement The lawmaker’s defection brings to four the number of lawmakers that have joined the APC on the floor of the house since Tuesday. Onuigbo’s defection was announced by Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, at plenary on Thursday. The lawmaker cited crisis and impunity in his local government chapter of the PDP as his reason for defection. Advertisement “The past months have witnessed intense crisis bordering on tyranny, arising from lack of internal democracy and downright impunity in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),” Onuigbo’s letter reads. “This crisis has 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. ....
Punch Newspapers Sections 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. ....