House of Reps member from Plateau defects to APC from PDP


A member of the House of Representatives EDWARD PWAJOK from Plateau State has defected to the All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party.

PWAJOK in his defection letter read by the Speaker of the house, Yakubu Dogara, during plenary said he left the PDP due to the crisis in the party.

He said there were many divisions in the PDP, from national level to Plateau.

But the Minority Leader of the House, Leo Ogor, raised a point of order to fault Pwajok’s claim that the PDP was factionalised.

He said that going by the Appeal Court’s judgment, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff is the National Chairman of the PDP and urged Pwajok to vacate his seat.

The Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, however, urged more PDP legislators to capitalise on the crisis within the party to cross over to the ruling party.

Dogara said that the legality of Pwajok’s defection would be left for the court to decide.

Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, who was at the chamber to witness the defection, later told newsmen that Pwajok’s defection would open the floodgate for other PDP legislators from the state to join the APC.

The governor said that some other PDP legislators in the state were ready to move to the APC.


Pwajok said that he was ready for the PDP if the party approached the court over the matter. 

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