22 Senators Dump PDP for APC in National Assembly

The battle over which party will be in charge of the National Assembly
is still on. It seems the APC has made it in the House of Reps, just
waiting for the right time to make the announcement. Now the
political power tussle has shifted to the senate where 22 senators
elected on the platform of the PDP are said to be on their way to join
the APC, thus increasing the chance of the leading opposition party.
“As we speak, those of us who have made up our minds to seek
a new platform for our political future are not fewer than 22 in
this Senate,” said a PDP senator who's set to join APC.
Although the National Chairman of the embattled PDP, Bamanga
Tukur, had on Wednesday paid a visit to the Senate to beg the
leadership to stop their members from joining APC, but it ended as a
failed attempt.
One of the angry Senators thundered, as he walked out of the meeting
with Tukur in Abuja:
“Tukur did not know how I contested and won my election; he will not
also know how I will contest and win the next election,” adding that
2015 will be a big shocker for the PDP.
You may wish to know that PDP currently has 72 Senators, APC has
33, LP 3 and APGA 1. But with 22 of them now joining the APC, it
means the APC will now have 55, will PDP will be left with just 50.
Also, a credible source disclosed that the APC now have a confirmed
majority in the House of Reps. “The new arithmetic of the lawmakers
in the House is 137 APC members plus 57 new PDP members that
recently joined, making a total of 194 members.”