A member of the House of Representatives from Benue State, has defected from the People's Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
National Assembly, Abuja
A member of the House of Representatives from Benue State, Hassan Anthony, has defected from the
A People’s Democratic Party (PDP) member of the Federal House of Representatives, Hassan Anthony, who represents Ado/Ogbadibo/Okpokwu constituency in Benue State, has dumped his party and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC_.
According to Premium Times, Anthony’s defection was announced on the floor of the House at the start of Wednesday’s plenary.
In a swift reaction over the defection, Nicholas Ossai (PDP-Delta) raised a point of order, urging the speaker to declare Hassan’s seat vacant.
“The Court of Appeal has on 17th February declared Modu Sheriff the authentic Chairman of the PDP, therefore there is no faction in the PDP,” Ossai said.
But his argument did not see the light of the day as he was ruled out by the Speaker, telling him to bring a copy of the Court of Appeal judgement.
The defection of Hassan to APC has brought the number of APC representatives to 226 and that of PDP to 124.