Until Thursday, Johnson
Agbonayinma, member representing Egor/Ikpoba-Okha federal constituency of Edo
state in the national assembly, was known as a member of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
Agbonayinma, who was in the Ali
Modu Sheriff faction of the PDP, defected to the All Progressives Congress
(APC) after accusing the PDP of “shutting its doors” against him and other
loyalists of Sheriff.
The supreme court had ended the
leadership tussle of the PDP by recongnising Ahmed Makarfi as the authentic
chairman of the party.
Makarfi tenure ended earlier in
the month.
Agbonayima is the second PDP
member in the house to defect to the APC this week.
In November 2016, Agbonayinma
trended in the news after he granted an interview to TheCable on the decision
of the green chamber to order 360 Peugeot cars for house of reps members when
the country was in recession.
He had defended his colleagues by
saying even personal assistants to President Muhammadu Buhari were driving
jeeps.
The lawmakers budgeted N3.6bn for
cars in the 2016 budget.
“Don’t ask me that kind of
question; go and interview Mr President who is flying helicopters and jets,” he
had said at the time.
“Don’t ask me about the house of
reps ordering Peugeot 305 or 508 when the special assistants (SA) and personal
assistants (PAs) of the president and ministers are driving Land Cruiser and
Lexus jeeps.
“You have not even interviewed
councillors and state house of assembly (lawmakers) who are driving jeeps.”
Can he still sing the same song
now that he has joined the ruling party?
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