Nigeria, Jan. 23 -- Emmanuel Enoidem, a former national legal adviser to the PDP, is set to defect to the ruling APC today, Friday, 23 January, in Akwa Ibom State.

Mr Enoidem, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), will be officially received into the APC by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom by 3 p.m. today at Etim Ekpo, where Mr Enoidem hails from, according to information on the Akwa Ibom State Government Facebook page.

Mr Enoidem contested and lost the 2023 Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial election as the PDP candidate against Mr Akpabio, who was the APC candidate.

Mr Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom, was not the Senate president at the time; he was seeking re-election to the Senate after lo...