Haruna a representative of Gombe North Constituency announced his defection and resignation during plenary, alleged that the APC in Gombe State had made several attempts to blackmail him. “Having defected to PDP, the action has changed my status from minority leader to majority member and since it’s obvious that a majority member cannot be minority leader, that position is gone,’’ he said. Mr Amos Fabulous, the majority leader of the House, also congratulated Haruna for his decision to defect to the PDP. Reacting to the development, Mrs Naomi Awak, APC Public Relations Officer in Gombe, in a telephone chat with NAN, said the party was unmoved. Following the defection of the minority leader, NAN reports that the House now has 17 PDP and seven APC members.

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2018 18:00 UTC