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Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by dre11(m): 8:58am On Jun 25, 2023
• PDP lures Yari group with Senate President, Deputy positions

• PDP senators to take Majority Leader, Chief Whip\Deputy, others


Barring any last minute change of mind, a major upset will occur in the Senate, Sunday Sun can authoritatively report.

This was revealed to Sunday Sun by a reliable Senator from the Northwest, who said that 22 All Progressives Congress (APC) senators have perfected plan to dump the ruling party by decamping to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), thereby giving the major opposition party the majority in the Red Chamber.

According to the source, these APC senators have decided to join force with their colleagues who are loyal to Senator Abdul’aziz Abubakar Yari who contested the Senate President position, but lost to Senator Godswill Akpabio.

The source added that already, the 22 senators have held series of meetings in Abuja and London, where they affirmed their resolve to decamp to the PDP.

Out of the 109 legislators in the upper legislative chamber, the APC currently has 59 senators; PDP, 36; LP, 8; SDP, 2; NNPP, 2; YPP, 1; and APGA, 1.

Therefore, if the 22 APC senators make good their threat, they will swell the number of the PDP to 58 while reducing that of APC to 37, thereby throwing up the PDP as the majority party in the Senate.

To actualize their plan, Sunday Sun gathered that the PDP senators have agreed to cede the Senate President position currently held by Senator Akpabio to one of the 22 senators and Yari’s allies decamping to the party, as well as the Deputy Senate President post.

On the part of the PDP senators, the party would take the Majority Leader, Chief Whip, and Deputy Chief Whip, the source said, adding that the Yari group has pledged to work harmoniously with them.

It would be recalled that Senator Akpabio used 17 votes to defeat Senator Yari during the 10th Senate President election held on June 13, with Akpabio scoring 63 votes and Yari, 46.

Also another senator from the Northwest told our reporter that a group of senators have already concluded plans to challenge the outcome of the election in court on grounds that the ballot papers used in the election that was supposed to be secret balloting were manipulated and compromised.

It was also gathered that the 22 senators who come from across the six-geopolitical zones and those planning to go to court from across party lines are just waiting to see how the sharing of principal offices, committees chairmanship positions in the Senate and some of their court cases in the states would go before carrying out their plans.

It was also gathered that the senators who are not in the Senator Akpabio camp have been left out in the ongoing committee selections in the Senate, which has reinforced their resolve to support the PDP in taking over the leadership of the upper chamber.

https://sunnewsonline.com/big-upset-looms-in-senate-22-apc-senators-set-to-decamp-to-pdp/

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by Dialpad: 9:07am On Jun 25, 2023
Beer parlor gist

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by rayblast(m): 9:10am On Jun 25, 2023
Fear d North

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by seunmsg(m): 9:14am On Jun 25, 2023
Nothing to worry about. Senate President Godswill Akpabio will simply declare their seats vacant and it will be enforced immediately. Bye-election will be conducted and loyal party members will be elected.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by senatordave1(m): 9:18am On Jun 25, 2023
seunmsg:
Nothing to worry about. Senate President Godswill Akpabio will simply declare their seats vacant and it will be enforced immediately. Bye-election will be conducted and loyal party members will be elected.

Gbam

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by nairalanda1(m): 9:21am On Jun 25, 2023
Just business.

That means that Tinubu would have a lot of fire under his feet.

Good for governance. No more rubber stamp assembly

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by haffaze777(m): 9:21am On Jun 25, 2023
seunmsg:
Nothing to worry about. Senate President Godswill Akpabio will simply declare their seats vacant and it will be enforced immediately. Bye-election will be conducted and loyal party members will be elected.

Gbamsolute

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by nairalanda1(m): 9:23am On Jun 25, 2023
seunmsg:
Nothing to worry about. Senate President Godswill Akpabio will simply declare their seats vacant and it will be enforced immediately. Bye-election will be conducted and loyal party members will be elected.

Like that has happened before.

The problem is the law on defections has always been ignored over the years, and nothing will happen again this time

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by Okoroawusa: 9:26am On Jun 25, 2023
Akuko mama Ngozi na ndi yard

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by BIZNess123(m): 9:26am On Jun 25, 2023
Thrash..talk.

Yari is a back stabber

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by Aquila99: 9:26am On Jun 25, 2023
dre11:

• PDP lures Yari group with Senate President, Deputy positions

• PDP senators to take Majority Leader, Chief Whip\Deputy, others





https://sunnewsonline.com/big-upset-looms-in-senate-22-apc-senators-set-to-decamp-to-pdp/

Nlfpmod

Lol. Okada men talk. Even if dy do. Dis new electoral law will be against dem. Dey will be gone.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by fergie001: 9:28am On Jun 25, 2023
OUK, you have lost... rest kwanu.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by seunmsg(m): 9:37am On Jun 25, 2023
nairalanda1:


Like that has happened before.

The problem is the law on defections has always been ignored over the years, and nothing will happen again this time

Not in a situation like this. It has not been enforced because most times, opposition members always decamp to the ruling party or the party in control of the National Assembly leadership. Any defection that will turn the ruling party to a minority party with the prospect of a leadership change in the National Assembly will be resisted. Their seats will be declared vacant immediately. Trust me, they can’t pull this off.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by tinsel: 9:38am On Jun 25, 2023
Sun, go and rest. Orji Kalu is out forever.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by Kentursky(m): 9:40am On Jun 25, 2023
So LP does not have old politicians? Are Tony Nwoye and Victor Umeh brand new politicians? Is Peter Obi himself brand new?
Ofumin:
This is a plan to unsettle this government. I hope you all are seeing the effects of recycled Politicians the Obedient was campaigning about.

I hope you're all enjoying the old wine. Because of ethnicity and religion

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by ORIENTATION101: 9:41am On Jun 25, 2023
Yari and pdp wild goose chase. Most of these bad advisers forget senate president can actually bite.
Saraki suspended ndume for 6months, declared opposition seat vacants and heaven didn't fall.

Retain his seat as senate president despite decamping to minority.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by citizenY(m): 9:41am On Jun 25, 2023
Ofumin:
This is a plan to unsettle this government. I hope you all are seeing the effects of recycled Politicians the Obedient was campaigning about.

I hope you're all enjoying the old wine. Because of ethnicity and religion

There is nothing like ethnicity or religion here. This is sheer self interest and that is what politics is about. Abi those 22 involved are only of one religion?

Yari is just taking on more passengers on his gravy train. He seems to have a deep pocket harvested from his association with that former Accountant General ,his sojourn as governor and suspected proceeds from Zamfara goldfields.

Corruption is really fighting back and it knows naither tribe nor faith. As a sore loser, he wants to bring the roof down. Ditto for those waiting for all the positions to be filled. If they are not there, they join Yari, collect and to help with everything else. Nigerians should keep a tally of those involved.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by Karemarealty288(m): 9:47am On Jun 25, 2023
Dialpad:
Beer parlor gist

My problem with this kind of gist is that, they are revealing whatever is their plan before taking action. And this news being reported by Orji Kalu's paper is just a bargaining chip to get lucrative committee chairmanship positions.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by PussyKing(m): 9:53am On Jun 25, 2023
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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by favor914: 9:53am On Jun 25, 2023
Ofumin:
This is a plan to unsettle this government. I hope you all are seeing the effects of recycled Politicians the Obedient was campaigning about.

I hope you're all enjoying the old wine. Because of ethnicity and religion
Please get out of here, you & you fellowship of Incoherent Obidients with this I hear say gist, nonsense Wailer, leave the ruling party & move to that dead 💀 party Pdp?

They might as well jump into the well to join Peter Gringory Obi in the LP?

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by Solsix(m): 9:59am On Jun 25, 2023
rayblast:
Fear d North
Which north. Stop hyping nonsense

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by favor914: 10:01am On Jun 25, 2023
nairalanda1:


Like that has happened before.

The problem is the law on defections has always been ignored over the years, and nothing will happen again this time
The defectors will treated with the Emefiele vaccine.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by XerXers: 10:13am On Jun 25, 2023
seunmsg:
Nothing to worry about. Senate President Godswill Akpabio will simply declare their seats vacant and it will be enforced immediately. Bye-election will be conducted and loyal party members will be elected.
Akpabio will simply be impeached immediately and majority Party member elected Senate president

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by XerXers: 10:14am On Jun 25, 2023
favor914:
The defectors will treated with the Emefiele vaccine.
By the time you make enemies with the north you will be a lonely man, is it minority that will save you from igbo / northern realignment? You think Obasanjo was a fool?

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by XerXers: 10:17am On Jun 25, 2023
Solsix:

Which north. Stop hyping nonsense
North wey you worship like God is suddenly nonesense and you think they will not retaliate? People wey nearly impeach Obasanjo if not for Obasanj's unification of the south? You think withstand their madness with a divided south?

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by bjdon: 10:18am On Jun 25, 2023
seunmsg:
Nothing to worry about. Senate President Godswill Akpabio will simply declare their seats vacant and it will be enforced immediately. Bye-election will be conducted and loyal party members will be elected.
They will not defect to PDP, they will simply vote with PDP, the same way the Saraki group did.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by XerXers: 10:18am On Jun 25, 2023
favor914:
Please get out of here, you & you fellowship of Incoherent Obidients with this I hear say gist, nonsense Wailer, leave the ruling party & move to that dead 💀 party Pdp?

They might as well jump into the well to join Peter Gringory Obi in the LP?
This olodo is indomie generation.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by XerXers: 10:20am On Jun 25, 2023
Karemarealty288:


My problem with this kind of gist is that, they are revealing whatever is their plan before taking action. And this news being reported by Orji Kalu's paper is just a bargaining chip to get lucrative committee chairmanship positions.
Political alignment is not secret, Orji uzo Kalu newspaper is not into propaganda like yoruba newspapers

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by seunmsg(m): 10:29am On Jun 25, 2023
XerXers:

Akpabio will simply be impeached immediately and majority Party member elected Senate president

Akpabio can only be impeached by 73 Senators. They don’t have 73 senators in their camp so they can’t impeach him. Buddy, Akpabio holds all the aces.

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Re: Big Upset Looms In Senate: 22 APC Senators Set To Decamp To PDP by seunmsg(m): 10:32am On Jun 25, 2023
bjdon:

They will not defect to PDP, they will simply vote with PDP, the same way the Saraki group did.

And what’s the PDP agenda they want to push? Btw, the man holding the gavel is Supreme. He rules on every vote irrespective of whether the hays or nays have the majority. It’s an entirely different scenario in the 10th Senate.

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