[i][/i]A senator representing Akwa Ibom South, NelsonEffiong, has cross-carpeted from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.The lawmaker announced his defection to the ruling party on the floor of the red chambers at today’s plenary. Effiong, who cited party crisis as his reason for defection, said,“Over the past one year this party has disintegrated; because of the crisis in the party, I have decided to resign from the PDP and join the APC.”In his reaction, the senate Minority leader, Godswill Akpabio, frowned at the decision, saying the lawmaker has automatically lost his senate seat because he became a senator underthe platform of the PDP.‎Akpabio warned that the party will contend Effiong’s continued stay in the senate in court.

If this is true, then he did only what politics requires. Politicians will come and go but Nigerians will remain.