Senator Ali Ndume
Senator Ali Ndume (APC-Borno South) has said seven Peoples Democratic Party senators have concluded arrangements to dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking exclusively with Vanguard, Ndume, who noted that PDP was dead and a taboo in Nigeria, said following strong political maneuvering and discussions are still on-going.
Ndume also noted that the defection of some of the APC senators to the PDP had consolidated the ruling party.
He said: “The defection of our colleagues made us to consolidate ourselves. Before we were scattered, we had some of us that are following Saraki and those that are following Saraki neck deep have been posted to PDP by Saraki.
“Now, we have senators who Saraki was thinking he had in his pocket, not knowing they were following him maybe for personal reasons or the like, but when he said we are leaving the party, they said no we are APC and we are still standing with our party.
“Now we know that we have a confirmed simple majority that we would be able to do whatever we want to do in that Senate. If it is going to be voting, we can write people’s name and even say 52 senators are of APC who are in support of whatever Mr President wants.
“Of course, two senators that are even in APGA are in support, working with the APC and, of course, two seats that are vacant and elections are to be done on August 11, we are very confident that the seats belong to APC by God’s grace. So, we would have a comfortable majority.”