APC Now Has Majority In House of Reps; PDP Cries Out

What has been dubbed the Broom Revolution by political analysts
swept across the House of Reps in Abuja on Wednesday and at the
end, the PDP suffered a major set back as thirty-seven (37) of its
once loyal members in the House defected to the All Progressives
Congress, APC.
According to the lawmakers, they are joining the APC because of what
they described as factionalisation and division within the PDP. The
decampees further stated that their defection to the APC is in
obedience to Section 68, sub-section 1(g) of the constitution.
But the PDP leadership has cried out that APC should "leave our
people for us".
In fact, feelers from PDP headquarters in Abuja indicated that the
party is mad at the move as it had thought that the lawmakers would
be afraid to decamp and follow the five governors who dumped the
party. I hear the PDP is threatening to go to court and plead for an
order to declare the seats of the lawmakers vacant.
The defected lawmakers are however saying that they are gone for
good. “We are joining the APC due to division and factionalisation
within the PDP. The defection is also in obedience to Section 68, sub-
section 1(g) of the constitution”, they said in their statement.