The Conference of United Political Parties (CUPP) has said defection from one political party to the other undermines multi-party democracy. National Secretary of CUPP, Mr Peter Ameh, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday. Ameh attributed the recurring phenomenon of...
Defection
A New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Yusuf Galambi, has defected to All Progressives Congress (APC). Reading the defection letter at the plenary on Thursday in Abuja, the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, quoted the defecting lawmaker as saying that his defection was hinged on...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are defecting to align with President Bola Tinubu’s bold economic reform agenda. The APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja while responding to criticism from former...
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani has received over 22 political heavyweights from the opposition parties and their supporters at the All Progressives Party(APC) zonal rally which held at Kafanchan on Friday. The event was witnessed by thousands of APC supporters from Southern Kaduna and political stalwarts from across the...
The Chairman, People Democratic Party (PDP), Delta State Chapter, Chief Solomon Arenyeka, on Wednesday, said the party is not afraid of defectors, but founding members play politics of ideology. Arenyeka stated this when the executives and some members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Asaba Correspondents Chapel, paid...
Another Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Salisu Koko, representing Koko-Besse/Maiyama Constituency of Kebbi State, has defected to All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Amos Magaji, representing Zango Kataf/Jaba Federal Constituency of Kaduna, had, during the plenary on...
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus in the Delta House of Assembly, on Wednesday said that none of the assembly members was warming up to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Majority Leader of the House, Mr Emeka Nwaobi said this in Asaba, while reacting to the...
Sen. Ned Nwoko on Wednesday at plenary officially notified the senate of his defection from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Party (APC). Nwoko’s notification is contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and read at plenary on Wednesday. Nwoko in the letter titled:...
The Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Bayelsa in the 2023 election, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, on Tuesday in Yenagoa formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). Eradiri said President Bola Tinubu is behind all the projects in his Agudama/Ekpetiama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the...
Sen. Chinedu Nwoko, a.k.a (Ned), member representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, has formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Nwoko, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under which platform he rode through during the May 29, 2023 general election, on Friday,...
Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State on Friday, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the APC chairman for Ikorodu, Alhaji Waheed Animashaun, received the over 5,000 new entrants, into the...
Members of the Omoluabi Progressives, a political group of a former governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, said they had agreed to quit the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is contained in a statement signed by the group’s organising and publicity secretary, Oluwaseun Abosede, and made available to the News...
The Labour Party leadership says Gov. Alex Otti of Abia has no plan to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the 2027 general elections. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Obiora Ifoh, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has debunked the rumour that he has left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and has decamped to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A close aide to the former governor told Channels Television that the rumour is the handiwork of mischief makers,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kebbi, has assured its members that the party remained one and indivisible entity. This followed a report that prominent party members may defect to All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The Chairman of the party in the state, Alhaji Usman Bello-Suru, gave...
A two-term member of Edo House of Assembly, Mr Ojezele Osesua, has dumped Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for All Progressives Congress (APC). Osesua, representing Esan South-East Constituency, announced his defection on Monday in Benin at a news conference held at the APC state secretariat. The News Agency of Nigeria...
A former Director-General of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation and erswhile Labour Party’s (LP) chieftain, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said the party’s inability to build an enduring structure after the 2023 elections is responsible for the gale of defections from the party. Okupe made the statement in an interview...
The Labour Party (LP) has threatened legal action against four members of the House of Representatives who defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the LP. On Thursday, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas announced the lawmakers’ defection. They are Chinedu Okere, Mathew Donatus,...
The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Gombe State, Alhaji Khamisu Mailantarki, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alongside thousands of his supporters. Mailantarki stated this at a political gathering organised to welcome the decampees into the PDP, on Saturday in Gombe. He...
The Zamfara Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed Rep, Sulaiman Gummi who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gummi, representing Gummi/Bukkuyum Federal Constituency on Wednesday announced his defection from the PDP to the APC over an...