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73  senators lose seats
Agency Reporter

Following the April 9  and 26  National Assembly  elections, a total of 73  senators lost the battle to  retain their seats in the upper federal legislative  chamber. The Senate has a total of 109  members, out of which  the Peoples Democratic Party had 89  senators before  the elections. While some PDP senators had lost at the primaries for  the April polls, only 26  of them were re-elected to  serve in the seventh National Assembly to be  inaugurated on June 5. Also, only six out of the All Nigeria Peoples Party's 11  senators will be returning to their seats in the senate,  just as only three out of eight  old Action Congress of  Nigeria senators will return. Senator Chris Anyanwu who defected from the PDP to  the All Progressive Grand Alliance was also re-elected;  same goes for Senator Ehigie Uzamere who dumped  the PDP for the ACN. Despite its huge loss, the PDP still has the highest  number of seats with 71  senators, but was two  senators short of the two-third majority lead. The ACN has 18  senators. The Congress for Progressive Change has seven; ANPP, eight and four for Labour  Party. The ACN swept the polls in the South-West region and made inroads into the North-West and North-Central.


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About 260  members of the House of  Representatives will not return in June when the Seventh Session of the  National Assembly will be inaugurated. Out of the number, seven won election into the Senate. The remaining 253  members  lost out during their parties  primaries and the general elections.  With their failure to secure re- relection into the House, they have  therefore bid bye to the monthly  jumbo  salary  of N10.59 m paid  each  of