PDP reclaims majority position in the House of Reps

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was said to have reclaimed its majority position in the House of Representatives yesterday following another defection of a member from Nassarawa state from the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

The House of Representative member,  David Ombugadu, in a letter read by the Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal,said he decided to dump his Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), below which he was elected for PDP, after consulting with his constituency.


According to reports,moments after the announcement by the Speaker, PDP members had shouted PDP! in triumph, with some members accompanying the lawmaker to the PDP leaders in the House for introduction.

With this latest defection, the PDP now has 174 members against the 172 of the APC which restored
it back as the majority party in the House.

Tuesdays defection of another member from Nassarawa state Rep Joseph Haruna Kigbo from APC to PDP tied the two parties upon a short-lived equal numbers of 173.

However, the APC lawmakers stood up, chanting APC, Change! which took the Speaker some minutes before he could restore order in the House.

Ombugadus defection brought the sum number of cross-defections in the House to seven, with PDP benefiting with higher number of four members, all from APC, since the resumption of the House from the year-stop fracture, two weeks ago.

So far, APC, who was the majority party before the crack, only received two members from each of PDP and DPP since their resumption from the fracture.