According to a source close to the House, the defection of the PDP lawmakers is as a result of the recent dissolution of the state executive of the party and the failure of the party to fulfil the promises made to the lawmakers to impeach former Governor Murtala Nyako.
It was also gathered that the house of assembly members had been considering the decision to defect following the recent dissolution of the state executive of the party by the National Working Committee of PDP and the manipulation of the list 0f ad hoc delegates in favour of a preferred candidate.
Punch newspaper also reports that the lawmakers are also complaining that they had been used to ensure the impeachment of Nyako and grassroots mobilisation of electorate in favour of the party only for them to be snubbed in taking major decisions.
Confirming the planned defection of the lawmakers, Adamu Kamale, lawmaker representing Michika Constituency and Chairman, House Committee on Information, said that the members had become disillusioned with the recent developments and were under pressure from their constituents to reconsider their stay in the PDP.
“We are studying what is going especially the dissolution of the state exco, the recent concluded ad hoc delegates elections and the appointment of the caretaker committee, which were done without due consultation with the members and party’s stakeholders.
“We were promised automatic tickets for any elective position of our choice in return for the ouster of Nyako, which the Presidency was so desperate to achieve as of then,” Kamale said.
