2027: PDP Woes Worsen As Another legislator Joins APC

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  • Days After Regina Daniel’s Husband Dumped PDP in Delta

By Abiola Olawale

The internal turmoil rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has persisted as another member of the National Assembly has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

This is as a member of the House of Representatives, Amos Gwamna Magaji announced his decision to leave PDP on Tuesday.

Magaji, who represents Java/Zango Kataf Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, said he was leaving the PDP as a result of an unresolved crisis in the party right from the national to local levels.

The New Diplomat reports that the lawmaker is the Chairman of the House Committee on Health Care Services and also a two-time member of the House and Chairman of the Kaduna caucus in the House of Representatives.

He is also Deputy Chairman of the House Special Ad-hoc Committee on the Restructuring of Government Agencies and Commissions looking into the recommendations of the Stephen Oronsaye report

He has also served in the House committees on Defense, Reformation Institutions, Rules & Business, Christian Pilgrimage, Police Affairs, F.C.T Area Councils, and represents Kaduna state in the House Committee on Constitution Review.

His defection comes after Senator Ned Nwoko, the lawmaker representing Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State in the Senate, and husband to Regina Daniel, a popular movie actress, dumped the PDP for the APC.

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