Senate Minority Caucus names Tony Nwoye as Minority Whip

Former President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Tony Nwoye, has been appointed arsenic the caller Minority Whip of the Senate.

Nwoye, who represents Anambra North Senatorial District, was unanimously selected for the relation by the Minority Caucus, filling the vacancy created by the defection of his predecessor, Osita Mbu, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Mbu, successful a missive work connected the level by Senate President Godswill Akpabio connected Wednesday, said his determination to permission the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was driven by a tendency to align with the enactment of Peter Mbah and President Bola Tinubu wrong what helium described arsenic the country’s “only unchangeable platform.”

Nwoye, who entered the Senate successful 2023 nether the Labour Party, LP, had earlier switched allegiance to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, precocious past year.

In a related development, Senator Anthony Siyako Yaro besides announced his exit from the PDP for the APC, citing interior disagreements and persistent divisions wrong the absorption party.

Similarly, Chairman of the Senate Committee connected Public Accounts, Aliyu Wadada, formally declared his defection from the Social Democratic Party, SDP, to the APC. Although helium had earlier joined the APC astatine his ward successful 2025, Wadada told the Senate that formalities marking his defection were conc...