Four members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Zamfara State on Tuesday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
They cited the crisis within the main opposition party as reasons for the defection.
Chronicle NG reports that the lawmakers who defected are Bello Hassan Shinkafi, Ahmed Bakura, Ahmed Shehu and Suleiman Gumi.
In a letter signed by Rep. Suleiman Gumi on behalf of the quartet and read at Tuesday’s plenary, the lawmakers said they were leaving the party because of the crisis within it, which led to dissolution of the state chapter by the National leadership of the party.
It was gathered more PDP lawmakers from Zamfara had agreed with to move with Governor Bello Matawalle to the APC.
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