By Peace Udugba.
Four Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to represent their respective senatorial districts have formally defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Making this known is the President of the Senate Senator Godswill Akpabio who read their separate letters in the Chamber. They all cited irreconcilable differences in their former party, the PDP as reason for their defection.
Akpabio, who read the letters, authorised that they should be documented by the Clerk of the Senate.
The Senators who decamped formally on Wednesday are Senators Francis Fadahunsi, Osun East and Oluwole Olubiyi, Osun Central.
Others are Senators Aniekan Bassey, Akwa Ibom North East and Samson Ekong, Akwa Ibom South.
Following the defection of the four Senators, the updated composition of the Senate now stands as follows: APC 70, PDP 28; Labour Party 5, NNPP 1, SDP 2 and APGA 1.
The National Secretary of the APC, Senator Ajibola Basiru, former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige and some members of the House of Representatives were at the hallowed chamber in solidarity with the party following the defection.
