Senate Presidency, Speakership: APC lawmakers move against party
Saturday Vanguard has reliably gathered that some All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators, and members of the House Representatives have concluded plans to work against the party’s candidates for the positions of the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. The move which had been at its teething stage before now was said to have been emboldened by the party’s loss in Zamfara State and the recent validation of the victory of Senator Peter Nwoboshi. The twin developments which increased the number of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers in both houses of the National Assembly, NASS, were said to
2019: More APC Chieftains, Govs, Lawmakers, Cabinet Members, Set To Dump Party
In the past few weeks, the All Progressives Congress (APC) suffered a great loss as some of its members, ranging from governors, senators, house of representatives' members, state lawmakers, local government chairmen and some party chieftains resigned their membership of the party and defected to the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) The last of its kind were the defection of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Ambassador Ahmed Ibeto and the Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfattah Ahmed, who joined the array of defectors yesterday to bid farewell to the ruling party (APC) by moving to the PDP. Investigation by starnews
