- The Imo senator said the protracted crisis and disunity in the Labour Party informed his decision to quit the party.
Ezenwa Onyewuchi, the Senator representing Imo East, has resigned his membership of the Labour Party.
He defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Onyewuchi’s defection was contained in a letter read on the floor of the red chamber by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday.
With the latest defection, the number of LP senators in the upper legislative chamber is now five.
The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, who doubles as the Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), was in the chamber when the letter was read.
The Imo senator said the protracted crisis and disunity in the Labour Party informed his decision to quit the party.
“This decision is due to the intractable division and crisis in the Labour Party that sponsored the earlier election into the Nigerian Senate,” his letter reads.
“The communication is therefore made pursuant to Section 68(1g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended.
“Imo State and the entirety of the South-East remain united under the leadership of our performing governor, Hope Uzodimma.”
Akpabio, thereafter, directed the Sergeant-at-Arms to hand Onyewuchi a new seat on the aisle of the majority lawmakers