House Leadership To Change In Favor Of APC, PDP Goes To Court

Members of the House of Representatives, particularly those of the All Progressives Congress caucus are bent on changing the leadership of the House as lawmakers resume sitting on Tuesday next week.

The APC gained a slim numerical advantage over the Peoples Democratic Party before the lawmakers proceeded on the Christmas/New Year break on December 19.

Thirty-seven former PDP members had defected to the APC on the floor of the House, citing “division” in the PDP as the reason for their action.

The development raised the numerical strength of the APC to 172, while the PDP dropped to 171.

Findings showed that the APC also planned to poach additional 40 PDP members before the end of this month to give it a “comfortable majority” of about 212 members.

Talks of a change of leadership in favour of the APC had forced the PDP to file a suit before an Abuja court, seeking to stop the House from going ahead to alter its leadership structure.

Among others, the PDP is faulting the grounds for the defection as it claims that there is no factional crisis in the party.

It is also arguing that the defectors had earlier filed a restraining suit still pending in court.

Source: Legit.ng