Just in: Rep who dumped APC finally joins PDP

Jagaba Adams, (Kagarko/Kachia) who was a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had formerly decamped to the House of Representatives on Thursday, February 8, when he identified himself as a member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP)

The lawmaker made this former declaration while contributing to a motion of urgent public importance on the need to add Kaduna and Plateau to a list of states under the siege of herdsmen.

He said: “I'm Hon Jagaba Adams Jagaba and I am of the Peoples Democratic Party.”

This statement triggered jubilation in the PDP camp, prompting the PDP lawmakers to congratulate the minority leader, Leo Ogor.

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However, the speaker, Yakubu Dogara, who presided over the plenary, however, said that Jagaba remained a member of the APC until he officially informs the House, Premium Times reports.

Jagaba Adams had in 2018 formally dumped Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that Alhaji Shuaibu Iyah of PDP Suleja constituency in Niger state, on Tuesday, February 6, announced his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

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In a letter read on the floor of the House by the speaker, Alhaji Ahmed Marafa, the lawmaker said: “He was joining the APC following his resignation from the PDP on whose platform he was elected in February 2016."

The News Agency Nigeria (NAN) reports that the announcement of Iyah’s defection was greeted with wild jubilation by other APC lawmakers in the House.

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Source: Legit.ng