Impeachment Plot: PDP Loses 5 House of Reps Members to APC

 

Five members of the Federal House of Representatives have announced their defection from the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

They are Isiaka Mohammed‎, Ibrahim El-sudi, Taraba, Adams Jagaba, Kaduna, Hambe Herman, Benue, and Ahmed Aisha Dahiru, Adamawa.

The defection factually signifies no arithmetical progress for the APC, having lost five members and increased by another five. But it does decrease the chances of the PDP to effect Tambuwal’s removal as the Speaker of the House of Reps.

The defection dance in the lower chambers of the National Assembly seems not to be over.

PDP earlier had 189 members to APC’s 159, the remaining 12 lawmakers coming from other smaller parties. But after Tuesday’s defection PDP’s number drops to 184; and the loss of these five members further lessens the option of securing the nod of 240 of the 360-man chamber to impeach Tambuwal.