2 more House of Reps members dump APC as defection party continues

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has lost another two of its members in the House of Representatives as its internal crisis over the conduct of primary elections continues to rock the party.

During plenary on Thursday, November 22, 2018, Ahmed Abu and Stephen Olemija dumped the ruling party for Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Action Alliance (AA) respectively.

Just like Babatunde Kolawole and Mukaila Kazzim , who also dumped the party on Wednesday, November 21, the lawmakers cited their dissatisfaction with the party's conduct of its primary elections ahead of the 2019 general elections as their reason for leaving.

In the letter read by House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara , Abu said the primary elections conducted by the party in Niger left him with a bitter pill to swallow.

APC hit by wave of defections

The APC has been hit with a barrage of defections in the lower legislative chamber of the National Assembly since July when 37 lawmakers dumped the ruling party with 33 of them joining the PDP and four others joining the African Democratic Congress (ADC) .

Four members also announced their exit from the party in letters read by Dogara during plenary on November 6.

Hon. Muhammed Soba , who resigned from the APC in October , had disclosed that 36 aggrieved APC members in the House were set to dump it for other parties.

A week before Soba's resignation on October 24, Hon. Olatoye Temitope dumped the APC for the Action Democratic Party (ADP) during plenary on October 18.

Dogara also dumped the APC for the PDP during a legislative recess that took place between July and October.