Three members of the House of Representatives from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The defection was announced during a plenary session presided over by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen.
The NNPP lawmakers who switched allegiance to the APC are Hon. Kabiru Usman, representing Rano/Bunkure/Kibiya, and Hon. Abdullahi Sani, representing Karaye/Rogo Federal Constituency of Kano State. In their separate letters, the lawmakers cited ongoing internal wrangling within the NNPP as the reason for their decision to abandon the party.