Following his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sen. Abdullahi Yahaya (APC-Kebbi) has formally resigned as Senate Majority Leader.<\/p>\n
This was stated in a letter submitted to Senate President Ahmad Lawan and read in plenary on Tuesday by Yahaya, who represents Kebbi-North in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI write to inform you of the withdrawal of my membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and consequently resigned my position as the majority leader of the 9th senate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came to this decision, after a very hard struggle with my conscience and emotions that it is better to remain on the side of my people than selfishly look at the other way.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll politics is local, I cannot therefore in good conscience continue to work for the success of this administration at the center, while the people of my state, my primary constituency continue to wallow in abject poverty and destitution under the misrule and manipulation of a despot in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have therefore decided to pitch my tent with the PDP in other to join forces with compatriots at home who are against incompetence, imposition and violation against democratic norms, principles and practices,\u201d Yahaya said.<\/p>\n
Alero, who represents Kebbi-Central at the National Assembly, said this in a letter addressed to President of Senate, Ahmad Lawan and read at plenary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with deep sense and responsibility that I write to inform your excellency and deed my entire colleagues in the Senate of my decision to defect from my political party, the APC to the PDP.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision is predicted on the fact that there is no internal democracy in the APC,\u201d Alero said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sen. Abdullahi Yahaya (APC-Kebbi) has formally resigned as Senate Majority Leader. This was stated in a letter submitted to Senate President Ahmad Lawan and read in plenary on Tuesday by Yahaya, who represents Kebbi-North in the National Assembly. \u201cI write to inform you of the withdrawal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n