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BREAKING: Senator Ifeanyi Ubah Dumps YPP, Defects to APC

Anambra South Senator, Ifeanyi Ubah, has defected from the Young Progressives Party (YPP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

 

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CITYNEWS NIGERIA reports that Ubah was the only member of the YPP in the present Senate.

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Ubah’s defection was announced on the floor of the Senate on Thursday by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.

In a letter to Akpabio, Ubah said his defection was due to irreconcilable differences within the YPP.

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Ubah’s defection to the APC increases the party’s majority in the Senate to 60 members. The number of political parties represented in the Senate is now down to six.

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