Enyinnaya Abaribe resigns from PDP, joins APGA

On Friday morning, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Senate Minority Leader, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party and switched to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance.

Abaribe confirmed to reporters that he has joined the party in Umuahia, on Friday.

The lawmaker also said he is no longer interested in running for Abia State governorship and he seeks re-election to the Senate under APGA come 2023.

Abaribe had sent a letter to the ward chairman of the PDP in the Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, on Friday morning, announcing his resignation from the PDP and a letter to the President of the Senate announcing his resignation as the Senate Minority leader in a separate communication.

In January 2020, Abaribe during a motion against worsening insecurity in Nigeria, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign, reminding president Buhari that Nigerians voted him into power in 2015 and renewed his mandate in 2019 to tackle the security situation in the country. Abaribe said Buhari had made a promise while campaigning for the presidency in 2015 that Nigerians should stone him (Buhari) out of government should he fail to improve the security situation in the country.