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Senator Omo Agege Decamps To APC



A Delta state senator representing Delta Central senetorial zone senator Ovie Omo-Agege have decamped to All Progress Congress (APC).

According to nghubs.com Sen Omo-Agege decamped from Labour Party to APC on Tuesday citing the crisis in Labour Party as his reason for decamping.
Sen Omo-Agege quoting section 68(1)g said


“Being a person whose election to the house was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that house was elected; Provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored‎,”

Section 68 (1) (g) ‎reads.

With his defection, the number of the APC ‎senators has risen to 66 while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has 42.

Senator Omo-Agege is the only Labour Party senator in the 8th House of the National Assembly.


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