From: FRED ITUA, Abuja
Senator Andy Uba, who represents Anambra South Senatorial District in the Senate, formally announced his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday.
The federal lawmaker, who currently heads the Senate committee on Public Accounts, is expected to forfeit his seat in the committee, as the position is customarily reserved for members of the opposition.
The announcement of his defection had elicited mixed reactions from lawmakers when it was announced by Senate President Bukola Saraki.
While APC lawmakers jubilated and hurriedly ushered him into their fold, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers, on the other hand, fumed and protested the move.
As usual, Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, relying on Order 42, maintained that Senator Uba must forfeit his seat, since there is currently no crisis in PDP.
Senator Uba is the fourth PDP lawmaker to defect to APC since the Eight Senate was inaugurated on the 9th of June, 2015.
Former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, was the first to defect. He was followed by Senator Yele Omogunwa from Ondo State. Last month, Senator Nelson Effiong from Akwa Ibom State, defected to APC.
Senator Uba, earlier in the month, at his country home in Uga, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, announced his plans to defect to APC. The lawmaker had said that he was joining the APC at the ongoing registration of the party members in the State.
According to him, APC has ideology and focus which he said he needed to tap into, to provide quality representation to his constituents.
Uba had further said that he joined APC because of other personalities in the party with sound ideas and whom he looked up to in politics.
He listed some of the personalities to include the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige and APC National Auditor, Chief George Muoghalu. Uba had stressed that with such calibre of people, the party would take the State to enviable heights.
The Senator had said he would be very effective in meeting the yearnings of his people more, now that he was in APC and urged other Igbo politicians to join the bandwagon.
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