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Two members of the House of Representatives made public on Tuesday their decision to defect to the ruling party, All Progressives congress.
The duo of Aliyu Datti Yau from Kano State (Peoples Democratic Party) and Shiddi Usman Danjuma (All Progressives Grand Alliance ) from Taraba State both defected the All Progressives Congress.
Speaking at the plenary, the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, read their letters of defection to members on the floor.
The Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu; and Deputy Minority Leader, Toby Okechukwu, separately raised points of order to fault the defections.
Both Elumelu and Okechukwu argued that the reason cited by the lawmakers for their defections, which was that there were crises and divisions in their former parties, was untrue and invalid.
Gbajabiamila, however, dismissed the protests by the opposition leaders.
He noted that Yau’s defection made all the 24 members from Kano to be in APC.