More Defections Rocks APC As Three Senators Defect To PDP, NNPP

Ahmad Babba Kaita (Katsina North), Lawal Yahaya Gumau (Bauchi South), and Francis Alimikhena (Katsina South) are the senators (Edo North).

Gumau defected to the New Nigeria Peoples Party, while Babba Kaita and Alimikhena moved to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, read three different letters announcing their resignations and defections during plenary on Tuesday.

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"As Senator representing Katsina North Senatorial District, I write to formally tell you of my resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and registration declaration for the Peoples Democratic Party," Babba Kaita wrote in his letter. 

My withdrawal from the APC was prompted by the state government's and the party's leadership's marginalization of crucial stakeholders in Katsina State, where tiny people like me have no chance.

“I have since been joyful and graciously accepted into the fold of the Peoples Democratic Party in Katsina State.”

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Senator Alimikhena, for one, claimed that his decision to leave the APC was prompted by the "ongoing and complex crises that has bedeviled the APC," particularly in his Senatorial District, "that has generated parallel executives that has weakened internal discipline, cohesiveness, and focus."

According to a statement by the Special Assistant (Press) to the President of the Senate, Dr. Ezrel Tabiowo, the three members' defection decreases the overall number of APC Senators in the upper chamber from 70 to 67.