25 Pro-Amaechi Lawmakers Formally Defect To APC

The 25 pro-Rotimi Amaechi members of the Rivers State House of Assembly on Wednesday, formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

This is as the kidnapped member of the House, Hon. Golden Ngozi Chioma, was freed about one week after he was kidnapped.

Speaking during a session, House Leader, Hon. Chidi Lloyd, said they had ceased to be members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding that further correspondence to them should bear the APC.

Lloyd said: “The 25 pro-Amaechi lawmakers have asked me to declare our formal defection to All Progressives Congress (APC). Henceforth, 25 of us should be referred to as All Progressives Congress members. We are telling the world today that we are all members of APC”.

Responding to the defection of the lawmakers, the Speaker, Hon. Otelemaba Dan-Amachree, requested them to document their decision.

Meanwhile, Golden Chioma, who is one of the pro-Amaechi lawmakers, was released yesterday morning less than 24 hours after the seventh Legislative Assembly, in a motion of urgent attention, appealed to the suspected kidnappers to free him unhurt.

The lawmaker, who represents Etche Constituency II and Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Diobu axis of Port Harcourt, the state capital.