Tinubu Receives Enugu Governor, Bauchi, Cross River Senators After Defecting To APC

President Bola Tinubu has formally received 2 senators who precocious joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), further strengthening the ruling party’s beingness successful the precocious enclosure of the National Assembly.

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, connected Wednesday evening led Senator Kaila Samaila Dahuwa of Bauchi North and Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe of Cross River North to the State House, Abuja, wherever they were presented to the President.

Speaking with State House Correspondents aft the meeting, the Senate President said the defecting lawmakers hinged their determination connected the pursuit of nationalist interest, describing their determination arsenic a committedness to supporting the administration’s imaginativeness for the country.

“As a effect of Mr President’s policies that person turned things astir economically and peculiarly successful presumption of gross procreation for the nation, they recovered it expedient to travel successful and articulation him to physique Nigeria.

“There’s thing but to physique Nigeria; they are not funny successful which governmental enactment is successful powerfulness — they are funny successful who tin tally Nigeria, who tin amended Nigeria, who tin enactment nutrient connected the tables of Nigerians,” Senator Akpabio said.

Senator Dahuwa, formerly of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had announced his defection successful a missive work connected the level of the Senate connected October 11.

In the letter, Dahuwa cited persistent interior crises and unresolved challenges wrong the PDP arsenic large factors that hindered members’ quality to discharge their legislative responsibilities effectively.

He said his determination to articulation the APC was driven by a tendency to align with President Tinubu’s betterment initiatives and nationalist improvement vision.

“We are not joining different governmental enactment for different thing, but arsenic patriotic Nigerians to determination Nigeria guardant due to the fact that we judge the President is doing precise good economically and everywhere. We joined this winning squad truthful that we triumph together,” Senator Dahuwa stated.

Also responding, Senator Jarigbe representing Cross River North said helium joined the APC “because the President is truly doing good and I privation to travel successful and enactment him.”

Meanwhile, President Tinubu besides received the politician of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, who precocious near the PDP for the ruling APC.

It would beryllium recalled that Vice President Kashim Shettima represented President Tinubu connected October 14 successful Enugu during the expansive reception of Governor Mbah, his furniture members, and supporters into the APC.

At the event, Shettima described the determination by the Enugu State Governor and thousands of his supporters to defect to the governing enactment arsenic an endorsement of the APC’s collective vision.