ADAMS Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), says he is happy about the defection of some lawmakers who left the party to opposition parties.

Mr Oshiomhole stated this while addressing State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.

The gale of defection started at the Senate with 15 APC lawmakers leaving the APC. Their counterparts at the House of Representatives numbering about 36 also left the party. Most of them defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).

The APC chairman who described those who left as “mercenaries” who were in the party just to win election said the ruling party is “not disturbed at all.”

Oshiomhole said he is not losing sleep over the defections because those who defected cannot affect the electoral fortunes of APC.

He described the defectors as right wing politicians who believe in the philosophy of “share the money” and did not belong to the progressives group.