Katsina: Three PDP lawmakers defect to APC
Three members of the House of Representatives from Katsina State have resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party and defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The lawmakers are Balarabe Dabayi (Bakori/Danja constituency), Aliyu Iliyasu (Batsari/Safana/Danmusa constituency), and Salisu Majigiri (Mashi/Dutsi federal constituency).
Their defection was announced during a plenary session, when the speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, formally declared them as the newest members of the APC.
In their separate letters of resignation, read by the speaker, the lawmakers cited the ongoing internal crisis within the PDP as the reason for their departure.
The event witnessed the presence of Governor Umar Dikko Radda, who attended in a show of solidarity.
(NAN)
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