37 Reps dump APC, 33 cross to PDP

A total of 37 members of the House of Representatives have announced
their official defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

This is coming barely 14 hours after 15 APC senators decamped to the PDP.

In the defection letter read by Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House,
the lawmakers cited fictionalization and division in the party as
their reason for leaving.

The decades include 33 lawmakers from Kano, Sokoto, Kwara, Kogi and
other states, who defected from the APC to the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).

The four others are from Oyo State who defected from the APC to
African Democratic Congress (ADC).

The defection was announced a while ago by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.

The announcement, however, threw the plenary into commotion with
shouts of PDP, APC, Change, Sai Baba, etc, renting the air.

All attempts by the Speaker to restore normalcy to the House has so
far proved abortive as members of both parties engage in shouting
bouts.

Dogara described the whole commotion as the "beauty of democracy."