The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says Godswill Akpabio, former minority leader of the senate, is still under investigation despite his defection to APC. Akpabio, who left office as governor of Akwa Ibom state in 2015, had been grilled on several occasions by the EFCC over allegations of […]
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The immediate past governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, says he did not defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to be shielded from EFCC investigation. Uduaghan confirmed his exit from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after attending a meeting of the APC national caucus in Abuja on Tuesday. He later said in a statement that […]
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The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos state, Moshood Salvador, has led the defection of over 10,000 members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He announced his defection to journalists at his residence in the Surulere area of the state on Monday. Salvador said he was no longer comfortable with “greedy […]
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The Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, is defecting from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a presidential aide has said. President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, posted a message on Facebook, Saturday night, saying that Mr Akpabio will be received into APC on Thursday by […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will tonight meet with members of Parliamentary Support Group of the Upper Chamber Chapter at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Members of the group will be on solidarity visit to the president and will use the opportunity to show their loyalty to the president. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that majority of the National Assembly members who decamped from the All Progressives Congress, APC, did so because of their re-election quest in 2019. President Buhari wrote the comment on his Twitter page in reaction to 51 lawmakers who left the APC for the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, and the Africa […]
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37 members of the House of Representatives have defected from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC). 32 of them defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while four joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC). One later announced he was also leaving the APC […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kaduna State on Monday received no fewer than 5,558 All Progressives Congress (APC) members who defected to the party from across the 23 local government areas of the state. The reception which took place at Zonkwa, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, was attended by prominent PDP officials both at […]
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