The Deputy Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, and the House’s Deputy Minority Whip, Nanlong Daniel, yesterday, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to CEOAFRICA’s source, Daily Trust, the APC now has a majority of fifteen members in the House, leaving the PDP with a minority of eight members. The Speaker, Peter Azi, while reading the letters of their decamping, welcomed Gagdi and Daniel, and called on all APC members in the House to work towards attracting legislators from the opposition.

Earlier, Daniel, who represents Mikang State Constituency, and whose letter was read first, said he took the decision to decamp after extensive consultation with his constituents, adding that the division in PDP formed the basis for his decamping.

On his part, the Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Gagdi, who represents Kantana State Constituency, said as a legislator, he had participated in factional congresses of the PDP, a development that convinced him that there were divisions in the party.
 “With the establishment of the Senator Ali Sheriff faction and the Senator Ahmed Makarfi faction, I have satisfied the constitutional requirement to defect from the PDP to the party of change” he said.