With the deft move by the nPDP to APC Tuesday, 49 out of the 67 members
of the PDP, whose governors were part of the defection have also
followed suit.
A statement by the points man of the group in the
House, Hon. Suleiman Abdurahman Kawu Sumaila, indicated that
legislators in the lower chamber from Adamawa, Kano, Kwara, Rivers and
Sokoto took cue from their governors and are now in the APC, thus
swelling its rank in the House.
Of the 49 members of the nPDP,
now in APC, Kano has the highest number- 14, followed by Rivers with 13
while Sokoto has 11. Adamawa and Kwara has 6 and 5 respectively.
Before
the crack that greeted the merger of the two parties Tuesday, the
number of lawmakers in the House who were close to the nPDP was 67. With
the new development, the coalition may have been deprived of the
support of 18 members from Jigawa and Niger.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/49-house-members-decamp-to-apc/165278/
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