The three serving senators from Kebbi State, elected on the platform of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, have formally declared their intention to defect to the governing All Progressives Congress.
This followed their meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, on Friday.
The lawmakers, Senators Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North), and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South), were led to the meeting by the APC National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje.
Present at the meeting where the defection arrangement was sealed, were the Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Nasir Idris; Sokoto State Governor, Ahmad Aliyu; and the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu.
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This latest defection is one of a gale of defections from the PDP to the APC in recent times.
