APC Moves To Prevent 18 Senators’ Defection

The ruling All Progressives’ Congress (APC) has moved swiftly to avert a likely slide into the minority in the senate.

Eighteen more senators elected on the platform of the party are believed to be heading out to join opposition political parties.

Should this happen, the APC would lose its majority status.

Already, the party has lost seven senators to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

Those who defected are: senators Yahaya Abdullahi, Adamu Aliero, Ahmad Baba-Kaital, Haliru Jika, Francis Alimikhena, Ibrahim Shekarau and Lawal Yahaya Gumau.

To avoid further defections, national chairman Abdullahi Adamu led deputy national chairman Abubakar Kyari and national secretary Iyiola Omisore all of them former senators to a two-hour meeting with the APC caucus in the senate on Wednesday

Adamu pleaded with the senators, many of who are displeased with the outcome of the primaries, to have a rethink and allow the party to address their grievances.