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BREAKING: Imo Speaker, 18 other APC, PDP lawmakers defect to Action Alliance
Nineteen out of the 27 lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly have joined Action Alliance , denouncing their memberships of the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party respectively .
The Speaker of the state House of Assembly , Acho Ihim , who read the notice of defection signed by the lawmakers during plenary on Thursday evening, also announced that he had joined his colleagues in AA .
Reading the defection notice , Ihim said that the members elected on the platform of PDP have joined AA .
According to him , the defection notice was dated November 7 .
The former PDP lawmakers are Ken Agbim , Bruno Ukoha and Mike Iheanatu .
Apart from the Speaker , the former APC lawmakers who joined AA are Ikechukwu Amuka , Authur Egwim , Uju Onwudiwe , Uche Ejiogu , Ngozi Obiefule , Lugard Osuji , Lloyd Chukwuemeka and Victor Onyewuchi .
Others are Chinedu Offor , Kennedy Ibe , Lawman Duruji , Max Odunze, Henry Ezediaro, and Obinna Egu .
Speaking after the notice of defection had been read , one of the defectors , Amuka , a former member of APC , accused the national chairman of the ruling party , Adams Oshiomhole , of “ collaborating with some people to hijack APC in Imo State. ”
The Majority Leader, Osuji , who also joined AA , alleged that the APC national chairman “ meted grave injustice” to them during the controversial APC primaries in the state .
He said that he felt ashamed that he was ever associated with APC .
Osuji , who still maintains his status as the Majority Leader after his defection , said that the lawmakers would team up with the AA governorship candidate in the state , Uche Nwosu , to win the governorship election and also ensure that President Muhammadu Buhari wins re -election .
Agbim , who joined AA from PDP , said himself and two others left the main opposition party because of the “ emergence of new PDP ” in the state .
He said that currently, PDP in the state had “ no leadership direction , ” forcing them to join AA in order to ensure that Nwosu and Buhari wins their elections.
The Speaker alleged that “ what Oshiomhole did in Imo State was injustice and against the tenets of ideal democracy . ”
He said that the lawmakers would work for the electoral success of Buhari and AA governorship candidate in the state , Nwosu .
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