The vice chairman of the Senate committee on ethics, code of conduct and public petitions, Senator Ibrahim Khalid Mustapha (Kaduna North), has officially dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
His defection was formally announced on Thursday in a letter read on the floor of the Senate by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Jibrin Barau.
Senator Mustapha said that he was leaving the PDP because of leadership crises.
He further said, “persistent leadership crises, internal divisions and prolonged legal battles within the PDP.”
The latest wave of defections made the current configuration of senators in the Senate on the platform of the various political parties to be APC 88, ADC 8, PDP 3, NDC 4, APGA 1 and Accord 1, totalling 105 out of 109 seats.
