Nigeria, Dec. 9 -- Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Fubara announced his defection to the APC at a meeting with some government officials at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

The governor's defection came hours after a closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the presidential villa in Abuja.

'Why I defected to the APC'

Mr Fubara, at the meeting, explained that his decision to defect to the APC was to enable him to offer "full support" to President Tinubu, who is a member of the APC.

The governor noted that he visited Mr Tinubu on Monday to "brief him on the situation of things" in Rivers State, and that t...