Nigeria, July 25 -- Hezekiah Bamiji, a media aide to Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, says two of the state senators who recently defected from the PDP to the APC suffered "political miscalculation."

On Wednesday, two senators from Osun State - Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East ) and Olubiyi Fadeyi (Osun Central) - announced their defection from the PDP to the APC on the floor of the Senate.

But speaking on Thursday when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV's The Morning Brief, Mr Bamiji said some unnamed APC chieftains had contrived speculation that Mr Adeleke was close to switching to the party in order to deceive the senators into defecting.

The media aide further argued that the senators then switched to the APC on the strength ...