Four Labour Party’s Federal Lawmakers Defect to APC

 

Four members of the House of Representatives from Labour Party have dumped the party.

 

The four members have now defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

 

The four LP candidates that defected on the floor of the House on Thursday are from four states: Kaduna, Imo, Edo and Cross River.

 

Speaker Abbas Tajudeen announced the defection on the floor of the House.

 

The lawmakers are Chinedu Okere (Owerri Municipal/Owerri North/Owerri West Constituency), Mathew Donatus (Kaura Federal Constituency of Kaduna), Akiba Bassey (Calabar Municipal/Odukpani Constituency) and Esosa Iyawe (Oredo Federal Constituency of Edo).