An analysis of facts and figures
on Tuesday showed that the present number of Senators from the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, has drastically reduced to 48 from the 63 members
that accorded APC the majority status in the upper legislative chamber.
Also, the number of the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers has risen from 43 to 58.
What changed the status quo was
the mass defection of the 15 APC lawmakers earlier on Tuesday.
However, it is worthy of note
that the total number of lawmakers that should be in the Senate is 109,
however, the sum of those in the PDP and APC comes to 106.
Senator Victor Umeh, who is the
only member of another opposition political party known as All Progressives
Grand Alliance, APGA, represents the Anambra Central senatorial district, while
two other senators out of the 109 members of the Senate are dead.
Though until the death of the two
senators, they were members of the ruling party, but bye-election is yet to be
conducted for their replacement.
The name of the late senators
are: Malam Ali Wakili and Mustapha Bukar who represented Bauchi South and
Katsina North senatorial districts respectively.
However, the present situation is
still subject to an imminent change in favour of the opposition PDP as the
Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Senator Shehu Sani and some others were yet to
announce their rumoured plan to ditch the APC.
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