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Senator Samaila Dahuwa, representing Bauchi North Senatorial District, has formally defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The defection, which took spot connected October 11, 2025, was announced connected the level of the Senate yesterday during plenary.
In a related development, 3 members of the PDP successful the House of Representatives from Kaduna State person defected to the ruling APC.
They are Hon. Abdulkarim Ahmed, representing Kaduna South constituency; Aliyu Abdullahi, representing Ikara/Kubau constituency and Sadiq Abdullahi, representing Sabon Gari national constituency.
In a missive work by the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Dahuwa cited prolonged interior divisions, recurring factionalism and a nonaccomplishment of strategical absorption wrong the PDP arsenic the reasons for his exit from the party.
“As 1 profoundly committed to the work of our federation and the payment of my people, I person recovered it indispensable to realign my governmental engagements with a much progressive platform—one that embodies bully governance, unity, growth, and discipline,” Senator Dahuwa stated.
He declared his enactment for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, commending the administration’s “bold and transformative reforms” aimed astatine restoring economical stability, strengthening governance, and repositioning Nigeria for sustainable growth.
“These efforts bespeak the decisive enactment our state needs,” helium added, noting that the president’s policies align with his legislative ideals and idiosyncratic convictions astir Nigeria’s improvement and antiauthoritarian progress.
Dahuwa besides extended his appreciation to the Senate President for what helium described arsenic “exemplary leadership” of the 10th Senate, which helium credited with fostering unity and attracting lawmakers from crossed enactment lines into the APC.
The announcement was met with mixed reactions connected the Senate floor. While respective lawmakers welcomed Senator Dahuwa to the ruling party, others from the absorption remained soundless connected the broader implications for the PDP’s spot successful the precocious chamber.
In his remarks, Akpabio congratulated Dahuwa and called connected APC members to person him warmly into the party’s fold.
“On behalf of the APC household successful the Senate, we invited you, Senator Dahuwa. Your determination is simply a testament to the enactment and imaginativeness of our large enactment nether President Bola Tinubu,” Akpabio said.
In the House of Representatives, 3 members from Kaduna State formally joined the ruling APC.
They are Hons Abdulkarim Ahmed, representing Kaduna South constituency; Aliyu Abdullahi, representing Ikara/Kubau constituency and Sadiq Abdullahi, representing Sabon Gari national constituency.
Their defections were announced successful abstracted letters work by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen astatine resumed plenary connected Tuesday.
The erstwhile PDP lawmakers each cited lingering enactment situation successful their enactment and constituents’ involvement arsenic reasons for their defection.
Governor Ubani Sani of Kaduna state, a erstwhile lawmaker stormed the Green Chamber to witnesser the defection of the lawmakers into his party.
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