A very vocal senator from the north-west is demanding a prepayment of at
least N100 million before he would defect to the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), according TheCable.
The PDP
leadership laughed off his request and this is thought to have stalled his
movement to the opposition party on Tuesday.
Senate
President Bukola Saraki announced the defection of 15 All Progressives Congress
(APC) senators, although some have since retraced their steps in the ongoing
drama at the national assembly.
The
northern senator’s fate currently remains uncertain, with strong calculations
that he might not be re-elected whether or not he defects to the PDP. “We were
shocked when he made the demand because his public posturing is that of a
principled Nigerian,” a southern senator told TheCable.
There are
no suggestions that lawmakers who defected to PDP were financially induced.
However,
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the movements to “local politics” and
his supporters are hopeful that his chances of re-election in 2019 are not
adversely affected.
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