Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe
Abaribe officially resigns PDP membership, loses seat at senate
Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Eyinnaya Abaribe, has officially resigned membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
This is also as the senator lost his Minority Leader seat during Tuesday’s plenary.
His resignation letter was read by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, during Wednesday’s plenary.
Until his resignation, Abaribe was the Minority Leader in the Senate.
The letter was entitled “Notification for Resignation from Membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Senate.”
It read: “This is to notify you and my dear colleagues in the senate that I have formally resigned my membership of the PDP through my ward.
“This also means my resignation as minority leader.
“I wish to thank you and my dear colleagues and the leadership of the Senate for the warm camaraderie enjoyed while I was the minority leader.”
The senate president on Tuesday, announced unofficially, that Abaribe had defected from the PDP to APGA.
During Tuesday’s plenary, the senate president, Lawan directed Abaribe to vacate his seat in the Chambers following his resignation from the PDP which had controlled the minority caucus of the National Assembly.
