A board of Trustees member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Grace Bent, has formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Bent, who represented Adamawa South between 2007 and 2011 under the PDP, said she had had enough of the party during a ceremony where she was received into the APC in Yola on Saturday, The Nation reports.
According to her: “After 21 years in the PDP during when I held vital positions, I have decided, after wide consultations, to move on and to do so with progressive people, hence my decision to come into APC.”
Bent’s reception into the APC was attended by Governors Simon Lalong(Plateau); Abubakar Bagudu (Kebbi) and Muhammadu Badaru (Jigawa).
Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello was represented by his deputy, Edward Onoja.
Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, performed the formal ushering of Grace Bent on behalf of APC caretaker Chairman, Mai Mala Buni.