A fresh wave of defections, on Thursday, swept through the House of Representatives, as 12 members announced their defections during plenary.
The defections saw several opposition lawmakers move to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
The lawmakers involved left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), Young Progressives Party (YPP), and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
In separate letters read by the Deputy Speaker, Rep. Benjamin Kalu on the floor of the house, the lawmakers cited irreconcilable differences in their former parties as reasons for the defections.
Reps. James Barka, Laori Bitrus, Zakaria Nyampa and Kobis Thimnu, all representing different constituencies in Adamawa, defected from PDP to APC.
Also, Reps. Midala Balami (PDP-Borno) and Mohammed Bargaja (PDP-Sokoto) defected to the ruling party, while Reps. Afam Ogene (LP-Anambra), Peter Aniekwe (YPP-Anambra) and Lilian Orogbu (LP-Anambra) joined ADC.
Two other lawmakers, Reps. Jessey Onakalusi (LP- Lagos) and Murphy Osaro (LP-Edo) equally left Labour Party for ADC.
The deputy speaker also announced that eight other lawmakers had notified the house of their defections.
Kalu listed their names to include: Hassan Hussein (NNPP-Kano), Tijani Khali (NNPP-Kano), Muhammed Shehu (NNPP-Kano) and Uchenna Okonkwo (LP-Anambra).
He, however, said that the letters of the defecting lawmakers would be read when they were physically present at plenary.
RBN reports that at Wednesday’s plenary, Reps. Garba Inuwa and Abdullahi El-Rasheed, both from Gombe, and Rep. Mohammed Audu (PDP-Taraba) defected to APC.
While Rep. Joshua Obika (LP-FCT) also defected to APC, his counterpart, Adewale Adebayo (PDP-Osun) moved to Accord.