APC is sinking ship – PDP senators

Some senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have dismissed the claim that seven of their colleagues are on the way to join the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP senators said it was not only a figment of the author’s imagination but an attempt to cast pool on the people, adding that their members were not planning to leave the party for the APC, a party they described as a sinking ship without any anchor.
The senators were reacting to former Majority Leader, Senator Ali Ndume stated which claimed that no fewer than seven senators of the main opposition PDP were currently negotiating with the APC and would soon defect to the ruling APC.
However, Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, (PDP, Taraba South),dismissed the claim as Ndume’s figment of imagination noting that it would be impossible going by happenings oin the APC for any PDP senator to contemplate leaving it for the APC.
In the same vein, the chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Samuel Anyanwu (PDP, Imo West), corroborated Bwacha’s position stating: “It is not true, APC is a sinking ship”, noting that PDP senators will leave the comfort zone they are at the moment to a sinking ship.
Also, the chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Matthew Urhoghide (PDP, Edo South), said Ndume should have been bold enough to mention names of PDP senators likely to defect to a sinking ship.
“However, I doubt this very much in the face of present happenings in the APC.
Some governors in the states and party leaders at the centre have shown so much intolerance and lack of understanding of our democratic practice.
I have no idea of defection from our caucus”, he said.
Recall that the former Majority Leader, Ndume, had boasted that the APC, despite the defection of 14 senators 11 of who pitched tent with the PDP, still maintain its majority status with 52 senators stressing that there is the very positive likelihood that it would increase with the soon to be effected defection of seven PDP senators and conduct of two byeelections which he hopes would in favour of the APC.
“Now we know that we have a confirmed simple majority that we would be able to do whatever w want to do in that Senate.
If it is going to be voting, we can write people’s name and even say 52 senators are of APC who are in support of whatever Mr President wants.
“Of course, two senators that are even in APGA are in support, working with the APC and, of course, two seats that are vacant and elections are to be done on August 11, we are very confident that the seats belong to APC by God’s grace.
So, we would have a comfortable majority”, Ndume boasted dismissing the PDP as a dead party in Nigeria.