HOURS AGO NEWS BROKE THAT SOME ELECTED OFFICIALS IN BENUE STATE FORMALLY DEFECTED TO THE OPPOSITION PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY-PDP.
IT MARKED THE LATEST IN THE GALE OF DEFECTIONS OF POLITICIANS FROM ONE PARTY TO ANOTHER:
NEWS OF THE DECAMPING OF FOURTEEN SENATORS AND THIRTY-SIX MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE FROM THE GOVERNING APC TO THE PDP STILL REVERBERATES.
WHILE THE PRESIDENCY AND INDEED THE APC HAVE DISMISSED THE DEVELOPMENT AS SEASONAL AND IN KEEPING WITH THE CHARACTER THAT PRECEDES ELECTIONEERING PERIOD IN NIGERIA, OTHER CRITICS HAVE ALSO BEEN EVALUATING THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PARTY MEMBERS AND INDEED FOR THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS.
ON THIS EPISODE OF NIGERIA TODAY WE DIG DEEPER INTO THIS DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DYNAMICS OF DEFECTIONS IN A DEMOCRACY.
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