The ruling APC has been strengthened again as it welcomes a new member, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, from the opposition PDP Nwaoboshi, the senator representing Delta North senatorial district, met with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Friday, June 25 The senator's defection comes a few days after the PDP announced that it had suspended him for alleged anti-party activities
Aso Rock, Abuja
- Senator Peter Nwaoboshi has dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) for the ruling All Progressives (APC).
Buhari Sallau, a
personal assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on broadcast media, made this
known in a brief statement on his Facebook page as the senator who is
representing Delta North senatorial district in the National Assembly met with
the president on Friday, June
Sallau shared
photos of the senator as he met with President Buhari alongside the national
caretaker chairman of the APC and Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni.
The deputy
president of the Senate and lawmaker representing Delta Central, Ovie Omo-Agege
was also present as Senator Nwaoboshi met the president.
PDP suspends
Senator Nwaoboshi Before his defection, New World had earlier reported that the
Delta state chapter of the PDP suspended Senator Nwaoboshi following
allegations of anti-party activities.
He was suspended
for one month on Wednesday, June 23.
PDP state
publicity secretary, Dr Ifeanyi M. Osuoza who announced the suspension said the
decision was taken at the party’s State Working Committee (SWC) emergency
meeting.
Senator
Nwaoboshi defeats EFCC in court
In another
related report, a Federal High Court in Lagos recently discharged Senator
Nwaoboshi of the N322million money laundering charge filed against him by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Justice
Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the anti-graft commission failed to prove the
elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker.
The judge also
discharged Nwaoboshi’s two firms, Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and
Suiming Electrical Ltd, on the same ground.