Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe of Abia South Senatorial District has formally defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
This was stated in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan at Wednesday’s plenary session.
Abaribe was the Senate Minority Leader until his resignation.
The letter was entitled “Notification for Resignation from Membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Senate.”
It read: “This is to notify you and my dear colleagues in the Senate that I have formally resigned my membership of the PDP through my ward.
“This also means my resignation as minority leader
“I wish to thank you and my dear colleagues and the leadership of the Senate for the warm camaraderie enjoyed while I was the minority leader.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the senate president on Tuesday, announced unofficially, that Abaribe had defected from the PDP to APGA.
