PDP crisis deepens as Kaduna Rep member defects to APC

A member representing Jaba/Zango Kataf Federal Constituency, Kaduna State, Amos Magaji, has announced his defecation from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

Amos Magaji based his defecation on the crisis rocking the major opposition party in the country.

Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, who presided over the plenary session on Tuesday, read Magaji’s letter of defection on the house floor.

“The unresolved crises in the PDP from the national to the state level has made it difficult for me to remain in the party,” Magaji said.

Magaji is the third member of the PDP that has crossed over to the APC since the inauguration of the 10th Assembly after Chris Nkwonta and Eriatheke Ibori-Suenu, from Abia and Delta States, respectively.

READ ALSO: Days after dumping PDP, Delta Senator Ned Nwoko defects to APC

Kicking against the defection, the Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda, asked the speaker to declare the seat of the Kaduna lawmakers vacant in line with the provision of the constitution, citing section 68(1g) of the constitution

Chinda noted that members of the house were lawmakers and lawbreakers, stressing that while the law allowed any member to leave the platform on which he was elected, it also spelt out the consequences associated with the action, which included losing his seat.

Source: PUNCH