The wave of political alignments ahead of the 2027 general election continued on Tuesday as 27 members of the House of Representatives switched political platforms, with the All Progressives Congress gaining 14 new members and losing two.
Speaker of the House, Tajudeen Abbas, while presiding over Tuesday’s plenary, announced the defections, lamenting the decision of two of his colleagues to dump the APC for the opposition.
The defections strengthened the fortune of the ruling party in the Green Chamber as its membership rose to about 280 out of the 360-member parliament.
The Peoples Democratic Party, which has lost many of its members, comes a distant second with 38 members, the African Democratic Congress has 15 members, while the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People’s Party are left with 12 and five members respectively.
The Accord and the Action Peoples Party have two members each.
Recall that during the inauguration of the 10th House in June, 2023, the APC had 181 members, while the opposition parties had 179, with the PDP leading with 115 members.
