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House of Representatives member representing Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency of Oyo state, Hon. Olatoye Temitope Sugar, has officially dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Action Democratic Party (ADP).
Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, announced the defections in a letter read during plenary on Thursday.
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Sugar was not the only defector. Others include Hon Akinlaja Joseph, who left Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join Zenith Labour Party and Hon. Emmanuel Oker-Jev from Benue state, leaving APC form PDP.
The lawmakers blamed disputes and parallel primaries whch had factionalised their former parties in their respective states for their decisions to defect.