The lawmaker representing Imo-East Senatorial District, Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi has crossed the carpet from the Labour Party (LP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
This is coming, barely a year after winning the 2023 senatorial election on the platform of the opposition party.
In his defection letter, Onyewuchi said he was throwing his weight behind President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
“This decision is due to the intractable division and crisis in the Labour Party that sponsored my election into the senate.
“We give our unflinching support to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and of course, support his administration aimed at achieving sustainable development for our country,” the letter partly read.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio read Onyewuchi’s defection letter on the floor of the upper chamber on Tuesday.
Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma who doubles as chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), was in the chamber when the letter was read.
Onyewuchi had officially announced his defection to the Labour Party in June 2022.
In a letter addressed to then Senate President Ahmad Lawan, Onyewuchi had said: “I wish to inform Mr. President and distinguished senators of my defection from the People’s Democratic Party to the Labour Party. This is after due consultation with my family, constituents and supporters.”