APC loses majority in N’Assembly

The ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), may have technically lost its majority status in the two chambers of the National Assembly, following last week’s implosion in the party.

It had assumed the status of the majority party in the parliament after the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 general elections.

In the upper chamber of the National Assembly, the APC won a total of 64 Senate seats; the PDP, 45; and the Labour Party, one. Similarly, the APC won 214 seats as against the PDP which got 125 seats -a difference of 89 seats in favour of the ruling party.

These statistics had given the APC a clear political advantage in the parliament until the party split into factions, following the emergence of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC), a coalition of the aggrieved members of the party.

Sunday Telegraph’s investigations indicate that the numerical strength of the APC may have been depleted by almost half, given the fact that the implosion which occurred within its ranks was of a high magnitude and came in two waves.

The tsunami, it was learnt, has forced at least 30 senators elected on the platform of the APC into the newly formed R-APC, a special purpose vehicle on a political journey to the PDP.

New Telegraph, July 8, 2018

 

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