Former Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe who announced his resignation from the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has joined the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA.
The lawmaker, who confirmed the development to Vanguard on Friday, said he would be participating in the party’s senatorial primaries tomorrow (Saturday).
A member of the APGA Board of Trustees BoT, Chief Ahamdi Nweke, also confirmed that Senator Abaribe “is now fully with APGA”.
He said: ”The most-ranking Senator in Abia has joined the progressives to deliver Abia from the clutches of the forces that have held the state down.
”He is coming with hundreds and thousands of PDP members who are aggrieved by the lack of internal democracy in the party.” Magic fm earlier reported that Abaribe also resigned as the Minority Leader in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.