Benue Assembly minority leader, Abu Umoru dumps PDP for APC

Fresh defections from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) person continued to change the governmental equilibrium successful the Benue State House of Assembly, pursuing the determination of Minority Leader Abu Umoru to articulation the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Umoru, the lawmaker representing Apa/Agatu State Constituency, had assumed the relation of number person toward the extremity of past twelvemonth aft the governmental displacement that followed the defection of erstwhile Majority Leader, Audu.

During Thursday’s plenary, Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Alfred Berger, work Umoru’s letter, announcing his exit from the PDP and introduction into the APC.

The Speaker said the latest improvement further strengthens the ruling party’s power of the Assembly.

Following the switch, Berger disclosed that the APC present commands 28 seats successful the 32-member legislature, portion the PDP is near with lone 4 lawmakers.

After declaring his caller governmental affiliation, Umoru was instantly appointed Deputy Majority Leader.

Explaining his determination connected the level of the House, the lawmaker said the determination was driven by governmental strategy alternatively than idiosyncratic interests.

According to him, the prime to permission the absorption was influenced by his tendency to enactment the developmental docket of Governor Hyacinth Alia.

“My determination to articulation the APC is informed by the request to unite with the medication of Governor Hyacinth Alia to bring t...