Just in: PDP senator defects to
APC 14 minutes ago. Senator Smart Adeyemi has defected
from the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) to the All Progressives
Congress (APC). Senator Smart Adeyemi has dumped PDP
for the ruling APC, hails President Buhari. Adeyemi, who completed the defection on
Friday, April 8, represented the Kogi
west senatorial district in the 6th and 7th
Senate. According to The Punch, the senator
told journalists in Abuja, where he spoke
with other senators Abu Ibrahim,
Olubunmi Adetunmbi among others, that
he has no regret dumping his former
party for the ruling party. He explained further, that he had to move
to the progressives to join President
Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts in
ensuring the development of every part
of the country, especially his constituency
in Kogi state, as he also asked his fans and supporters to move en masse to the
ruling party with alacrity. Adeyemi’s defection is coming on the heels of several defections from the PDP
as 5,000 members dumped the party for
the APC in Benue state. The defectors said they cannot belong to
opposition politics, and according to
Leadership, the defectors included PDP in
the MINDA extraction of the Benue north
west senatorial district. The PDP members burnt their
membership cards and held the broom to
mark their decamping to APC. Several political units including political
clubs and associations in MINDA as well
traditional groups were led into the APC
fold at the JS Tarka foundation in Makurdi.