Again it was a show of conquest, at the House of Representatives plenary session of Thursday, 13th November 2025, when the All Progressive Congress (APC) National Leadership led by its National Chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda, his predecessor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Feemi Gbajabiamila, Members of the National Working Committee, Senators including the Deputy Senate President, Sen. Jibrin Barau, the Majority Leader of the Senate, Sen. Micheal Opeyemi Bamidele, \u00a0attended the plenary session at the House of Representatives to see more opposition party members defect to their ruling APC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Defecting Members included, Hon. Abdulmumuni\nJibrin representing Bebeji\/Kiru Federal Constituency and Hon. Sagir Koki, representing\nKano Municipal, Kano State,both of the New Nigeria Peoples\u2019 Party (NNPP) to\nAPC, the common reason for these defections are crisis and split within their\nparties, the NNPP, Kano State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This defections appear to have\ncompleted the ruling parties conquest of the opposition as the APC now has more\ntwo-thirds of votes required for any legislative intent in the National\nAssembly including the required votes to amend most sections of the constitution.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the House of Representatives<\/strong>,\nthe All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/strong> maintains a commanding majority with\n232 members<\/strong>, reflecting its continued dominance in the 10th National\nAssembly. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)<\/strong> follows as the main\nopposition with 82 members<\/strong>, while the Labour Party (LP)<\/strong> holds 22\nseats<\/strong>. The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)<\/strong> occupies 16 seats<\/strong>,\nand the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)<\/strong> accounts for 3 members<\/strong>.\nBoth the Young Progressives Party (YPP)<\/strong> and the Social Democratic\nParty (SDP)<\/strong> have 2 members each<\/strong>, while the African Democratic\nCongress (ADC)<\/strong> retains a single seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The African Democratic Congress\n(ADC) remains represented in the House of Representatives by Hon. Leke Abejide,\nrepresenting Yagba East\/Yagba West\/Mopa Muro, Federal Constituency, Kogi State who\nhas been one of the party\u2019s most visible and longstanding members. However,\nrecent political developments have sparked internal controversy following the\nemergence of a new coalition claiming to represent a restructured ADC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hon. Abejide has publicly expressed\nstrong dissatisfaction and disapproval over this development, describing the\nnew formation as wrong and misleading, given that he has been a consistent and\nloyal member of the party long before the coalition\u2019s emergence. His position\nunderscores a growing tension within the ADC between the existing leadership\nand the new coalition elements attempting to redefine the party\u2019s identity and\ndirection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Senate<\/strong>, the APC<\/strong>\nsimilarly holds the majority with 78 Senators<\/strong>, while the PDP<\/strong>\nfollows with 22 Senators<\/strong>. The Labour Party (LP)<\/strong> has 4 members<\/strong>,\nand both the Social Democratic Party (SDP)<\/strong> and the All Progressives\nGrand Alliance (APGA)<\/strong> have 2 Senators each<\/strong>. The Action Democratic\nParty (ADP)<\/strong> and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)<\/strong> are represented\nby 1 Senator each<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As it stands of course, Nigeria\u2019s\nopposition political parties remain in crisis with litigations, court cases,\nsquabbles, factionalization and division within the major political parties including\nPDP, Labour Party, and NNPP. There is serious concern as to whether there will\nbe competitive 2027 general elections in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Again it was a show of conquest, at the House of Representatives plenary session of Thursday, 13th November 2025, when the All Progressive Congress (APC) National Leadership led by its National Chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda, his predecessor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Feemi Gbajabiamila, Members of the National Working Committee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}