Five members of the House of Representatives from Oyo state have defected from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to new parties.
From the five lawmakers, the Ibadan lawmaker, Dapo Lam-Adesina is missing despite being a member of the Unity Forum, the aggrieved and breakaway members of the Oyo chapter of the ruling APC.
The five joined 32 other members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
InsideOYO.com gathered that four members defected from All Progressive Congress (APC) to African Democratic Congress (ADC) and they are Sunday Adepoju, Olugbemi Samson, Taiwo Michael and Olasupo Abiodun. While Segun Ogunwuyi defected from the APC to join Peoples Democratic Party. However, Dapo Lam Adesina’s name was not announced at the plenary by the speaker.
Announcing their defection on Tuesday during plenary, the first 37 lawmakers cited division at all levels of the APC as the reason for their defection.
Neither the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, nor his deputy, Yusuff Lasun, was named among the defectors.
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Few minutes after the 36 announced their defection, the chairman of the House of Representatives Rules and Business, Orker Jev, announced he was also resigning from the APC.
He also cited division in the APC as his reason for leaving the party. He however did not announce the party he is moving to.
The remaining lawmakers who dumped APC are Garba Umar (Kano), Olayonu Tope (Kwara), Ahmed Garba (Kano), Kabiru Marafa (Sokoto), Zakari Mohammed (Kwara), Abubakar Amuda-Kanike (Kwara).
Others are: Ali Madaki (Kano), Hassan Saleh (Benue), Ahman Pategi (Kwara), Mark Gbillah (Benue), Shehu Usman (Kano), Aminu Shagari (Sokoto), Nuhu Danburam (Kano), Atunwa Abdulrazak (Kwara).
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Also, Salisu Zakari (Bauchi), Hassan Omale (Kogi), Oker-Jev (Benue), Rufai Chanchangi (Kaduna), Abdulsamad Dasuki (Sokoto), Sani Zoro (Jigawa), Benjamin Okolo (Kogi), Funke Adedoyi (Kwara), Bode Ayorinde (Ondo), Bashiru Salihu (Sokoto), Barry Mpigi (Rivers) were among.
Others are: Nasiru Sule (Kano), Lawal Rabiu (Kaduna), Sani Rano (Kano), Dickson Tarkighir (Benue) Musa Adotsamiya (Kano) and Emmanuel Udende (Benue).
