Nigeria, Dec. 21 -- Ireti Kingibe, the senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has defected from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Mrs Kingibe announced her defection in a statement on Saturday shortly after she registered as a member of the ADC at its secretariat in Abuja.

She said her decision to quit the LP, which sponsored her to the Senate, was deliberate, strategic, and driven by conviction.

The defection makes her the second serving member of the National Assembly on the platform of the ADC. Leke Abejide, a member of the House of Representatives representing Yagba East/Yagba West/Mopa-Moro Federal Constituency of Kogi State, was elected into the lower chamber in 2023 on the platform of ...