APC: Aggrieved PDP senators to defect after break‏

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Aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party senators
said on Friday they had made up their minds to
formally defect to the All Progressives Congress
whenever the Senate resumed from its current
Christmas/ New year holidays.
They, however, said they would defect
individually according to the Senate rules unlike
their 37 colleagues in the House of
Representatives, who defected in group last
December.
The senators told our correspondent in separate
interviews that they would present their letters of
defection one after the other, which the Senate
President, David Mark, would be expected to
read as personal letters.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Media,
Mr. Bankole Omisore, the Senator representing
Kwara Central Senatorial District, Dr. Bukola
Saraki, said arrangements had been concluded
for his formal defection when the Senate
resumes.
He said, “I can tell you that Senator Bukola
Saraki is committed to APC. The people of Kwara,
whom we represent, have endorsed the
(defection) move and there is no going back.”
The senator said he could not speak of other
senators but maintained that it was certain that
his letter of defection would be read on the floor
of the Senate very soon.
He said “The process to officially effect the
defection has been perfected and it would be
concluded once the Senate resumes in the next
few weeks”
Senator Shaaba Lafiagi, who told our
correspondent that he was outside the country,
declined comments on the issue but pledged to
make his position known whenever he arrived
the country.
Senator Magnus Abe on his part also expressed
his resolve to defect to the APC no matter the
situation.
He, however, said he would not disclose his
strategy for defection on the pages of
newspapers.
Abe said, “What I have said, which I will still
continue to maintain is that I am moving over to
the APC but how I am going to do it and when I
am going to do it are a strategy that I will keep
to my chest”
Other aggrieved senators who spoke on
conditions of anonymity also stated their resolve
to defect before the end of January.
They said the threats that their seats would be
declared vacant would not stand because a legal
process had been instituted to address the issue.
Our correspondent learnt that the Senate
president was being persuaded by the leadership
of the PDP and the presidency to enforce the
provisions of the Senate rules by declaring the
seats of the affected senators vacant.