APC loses 2 Rep members

The ranks of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives was further depleted on Wednesday following the defection of two members from the party.

At yesterday’s plenary presided over by Speaker Yakubu Dogara, two members of the ruling APC announced that they were leaving again the party.

While Rep. Babatunde Kolawole from Ogun state defected to the main opposition Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), Rep. Mukaila Olayinola Kazeem said he was resigning from being a member of the APC.

He however, did not name which party he was defecting to in his resignation letter as read by Speaker Dogara.

But, in a swift reaction to the two defections, Rep. Suleiman Aminu, an APC lawmaker raised a point of order, expressing concern over the spate of cross carpeting, stating that the seats of the two decamping members be declared vacant .

He argued that the action of the Ogun lawmakers was unwarranted because there is no crisis in the APC to warrant their exit.

Aminu was however, ruled out of order by the speaker.