The current crisis facing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP seems to have deepened as the party lost another lawmaker on Wednesday to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
POLITICS NIGERIA has learnt that a member of the house of representatives from Nasarawa state, Jonathan Gaza defected from the opposition Party to the APC during plenary on Wednesday.
Gaza joins five other lawmakers who have dumped the PDP in the last 2 weeks.
Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday, read the letter of defection written by the lawmaker to members on the floor of the House, as some lawmakers repeatedly chorused ‘APC!’”
A high powered group of politicians from Nassarawa were in the chambers to witness the defection. They include; his Excellency, the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Engineer Abdullahi A. Sule; Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Senator Umaru Tanko Al–Makura, Senator Godiya Akwashiki, Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Wadada, Hon. Mohammed Al–Makura, Hon. Joseph Kigbu; State Chairman, APC, Chief John Mamman; State Secretary, APC, Alh. Aliyu Bello; and the Chairman, APC Nasarawa-West Senatorial Zone to witness the formal defection of Hon. Jonathan Gbefwi Gaza from the PDP to the APC.”
