Ex-Reps member dumps PDP for APC

A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Sunday Karimi, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Karimi, who formally declared his withdrawal from the PDP, in a statement on Sunday, said his decision was premised on personal reasons, adding that he would hand over his membership card to his ward.

Though he has not yet declared his intention to join any other political party, some of his political allies who spoke with our correspondent today said he was heading to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Karimi, a founding member of the PDP in 1998, once served as a state deputy chairman of PDP. He, however, defected to the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and won the House of Representatives seat in 2011.

The former lawmaker later returned to the PDP, a platform through which he won the 2015 election.

Karimi aspired for election into the Senate in 2019, but was disqualified by the PDP from contesting the primaries alongside others.

Though he took the PDP to court then, Hon. Karimi was later prevailed upon to abandon the court processes, which he did.