…says party in tatters
Senator representing Bayelsa-East, Benson Agadagba, on Wednesday defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It came few days after Senator Konbowei Benson (Bayelsa-Central), also defected from the main opposition party to the APC.
The new development contributed to the comfortable majority of the APC, which now controls 76 of 109 senators.
The Bayelsa PDP is now left with former governor Henry Seriake Dickson as its sole senator.
It was Dickson who handed over power to the current governor of the state, Senator Diri Douye.
Douye himself has since resigned his membership in the PDP, but has yet to announce his next political party.
However, those close to him point to the APC as the likely destination, considering that two senators have already joined the ruling party.
In his defection letter read on the floor by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, the lawmaker said the PDP today is in tatters, compared to when he joined the party many years ago.
He claimed that the situation in the party had deteriorated to the point that it could no longer be redeemed.
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