By Clifford Ndujihe, Deputy Political Editor
LESS than seven months to the 2019 general elections, the political firmament is astir. A flurry of alignments and realignments of politicians is ongoing at a dizzying pace.
The alignments had been going on for a while but reached a crescendo, this week, when 51 federal lawmakers, 14 senators and 37 members of the House of Representatives left the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for opposition parties. There have also been defections to the APC from opposition parties across the states.
The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is the major beneficiary of the latest defections in the National Assembly making it to be in strong contention for the majority party in the Senate.
However, APC senators insist they are in the majority with 53 members to PDP’s 48 even though only 39 senators were available…
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