APC Tightens Senate Grip As Wadada Defects From SDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has extra consolidated its dominance within the Senate following the defection of Senator Ahmed Wadada (Nasarawa West) from the Social Democratic Occasion (SDP).

With Wadada’s return, the APC now commands 72 out of 109 seats within the upper chamber, leaving the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) with 28 senators.

The Labour Occasion retains 5, whereas the All Progressives Immense Alliance (APGA) holds two. Every the SDP and the Unique Nigeria Peoples Occasion (NNPP) now delight in one senator each.

Wadada, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, had quit the APC in 2022 to pursue his senatorial ambition under the SDP, where he obtained within the 2023 elections.

In a letter dated September 2 and addressed to the APC ward chairman in Tudun Kofa, he confirmed his return.

The letter, titled “Notification of my return to the APC”, study, “I am writing to suppose you of my resolution to return to our colossal salvage collectively (the All Progressives Congress). After cautious consideration, I undoubtedly delight in made up our minds to rejoin the salvage collectively to make a contribution to its suppose, construction, and success.”

Wadada’s defection follows a string of up to the moment exits from the PDP, which has progressively lost ground within the Senate.

Easiest two months ago, four senators, Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East), Oluwole Olubiyi (Osun Central), Aniekan Bassey (Akwa Ibom North East), and Samson Ekong (Akwa Ibom South), defected to the APC, citing irreconcilable divisions within their salvage collectively.

Bassey, whereas invoking Sections 40 and 68(1)(g) of the Structure, wrote that his resolution used to be “deeply conception to be” and “crucial.”

“This resolution has turn out to be crucial in peep of the present political trends each in my constituency and within the salvage collectively constructing, which has been fractured previous redemption,” he stated.

Senator Ekong added that his transfer used to be dictated by political realities in Akwa Ibom.

“Politics is a sport of ardour, and if I’m able to also add, circumstances. In Akwa Ibom Disclose, the earth has moved with the convergence of considerable political gamers on the APC platform. My folk delight in excessive hopes for commensurate reward programs from the APC vitality matrix,” he explained.

Senate Chief Opeyemi Bamidele described the defections as a signal of additional shifts forward.

“I sincerely welcome our colleagues to the All Progressives Congress. This might occasionally no longer be the cease; more are coming,” he declared.

With 72 senators now under its fold, the APC appears to thrill in attained a formidable majority within the chamber, positioning it to wield better legislative affect and aid watch over within the arriving months.

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