Nigeria, Feb. 17 -- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked its House of Representatives and the Kaduna State House of Assembly members who defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to vacate their seats.

The lawmakers from Southern Kaduna were among 50 people who moved from the opposition party to the APC on Saturday.

Governor Senator Uba Sani officially received the defectors, including former governor Ramalan Yero and former senator Danjuma La'ah, during a stakeholder meeting of the APC in Murtala Square, Kaduna.

The PDP condemned the development in a statement issued on Sunday by Maria Dogo, the party's publicity secretary in Kaduna State. It said these defections, particularly by serving lawmakers, are a brazen b...