The three senators from Kebbi State on Tuesday officially defected from the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the floor of the Senate.
Senators Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North) and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South), are the latest lawmakers to dump the PDP for the APC following a wave of defections that has hit the party.
The defection of Aliero, Abdullahi, Maidoki brings the number of senators on the platform of the APC in the 10th Senate to 68 while the PDP dropped to 30 members from 33.