Lower than 24 hours earlier than the anticipated defection of Governor Agbu Kefas from the Peoples Democratic Social gathering to the All Progressives Congress, all sixteen PDP members of the Taraba State Home of Meeting have resigned from the celebration and joined the ruling APC.
The event unfolded throughout Monday’s plenary session, the place Speaker John Kizito Bonzina introduced the resignations.
He learn letters submitted by the lawmakers, every stating their choice to depart the PDP for the APC.
In keeping with the Speaker, the defections fall beneath Part 109 of the Structure, which allows lawmakers to modify events within the occasion of division inside their political celebration.
Of their letters, the lawmakers cited a lingering management disaster inside the PDP on the nationwide stage and claimed the existence of two rival factions.
They described the state of affairs as one which has thrown the celebration into confusion and made continued membership untenable.
The defectors, talking after the plenary, mentioned the unresolved inner wrangling that after boosted the celebration’s profile had now weakened it.
They added that they’d consulted their respective constituencies earlier than making the choice.
Jethro Yakubu, representing Wukari I, mentioned his defection turned needed as a result of the disaster threatening the PDP “has the potential to expunge the celebration from the nation.”
Equally, Musa Chul of Gassol I and Nelson Len of Nguroje constituency mentioned remaining within the PDP would jeopardize their political future, prompting their selections and that of their supporters to affix the APC.
The mass defection marks a significant shift in Taraba’s political panorama, coming at a time when the state is already bracing for Governor Kefas’s anticipated transfer to the ruling celebration.
With the defections, the 24-member State Home of Meeting is now totally made up of APC lawmakers.
Former Speaker Abel Peter Diah, a long-standing APC member and the present consultant for Mbamnga constituency, recommended the defectors for deeming it needed to affix the APC.
He additionally praised the Speaker and the newly defected lawmakers for aligning with the imaginative and prescient of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying the state would profit extra from the federal authorities.
In the meantime, former Senate chief, Ali Ndume, has raised the alarm over the rising wave of defections by governors and federal lawmakers from opposition events to the ruling APC.
He warned that the celebration could also be courting an inner collapse if the development continues unchecked.
The lawmaker dismissed lots of the defectors as political lightweights with little or no worth so as to add to the governing celebration, insisting that the APC is changing into “overloaded” with “largely empty cargo.”