The ranks of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Senate continue to swell on Wednesday, October 8, as Sen. Kelvin Chukwu, representing Enugu East Senatorial District, officially defected from the Labour Party (LP) to join the ruling APC.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio read Chukwu’s defection letter during plenary.
Commenting on the move, Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele remarked that the defection is a clear testament to the fact that the “APC is doing well.”
However, the Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro (PDP Benue South), reminded Sen. Chukwu that he came to the Senate on “sympathy vote.”
Persecondnews recalls that the defected lawmaker was given the LP’s Enugu East ticket, on compassionate grounds, to replace his older brother, Oyibo Chukwu who was the original holder of the ticket.
Oyibo Chukwu was murdered in February 2023, shortly before the year’s general election, in what many believed was a political assassination.
Sen. Moro, however, said he would reserve the story of the defection of Sen. Chukwu “for another day.”
The defection of the Enugu East senator has now raised the number of APC senators to a controlling majority of 73.
The Senate is a 109-member legislative house.
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