The lawmaker representing Misau/Dambam Federal Constituency of Bauchi State, Aliyu Misau, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and joined the Allied Peoples Movement, APM.

The speaker of the House, Abbas Tajudeen, announced the lawmaker’s defection on Wednesday during plenary.

In the letter, Misau said his decision to leave the PDP is due to the unresolved internal crises and persistent factionalism within the party.

DAILY POST reports that this is the second time in June that another Bauchi federal lawmaker defected from the PDP to the APM.

Recall that four members of the House from Bauchi State had on June 4, dumped the same PDP for the APM.

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has revealed that ex-Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, worked harder for the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential ticket for the 2027 general elections.

In a continuous trade of words with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the ex-SGF insisted that the ADC primary election that produced Atiku was massively rigged.

Lawal contrasted Amaechi’s activities with what he described as Atiku’s low-profile approach to the contest.

“Someone like Rotimi Amaechi was very confident that if we go to primaries he would win. Everybody around him was extremely confident that Amaechi would win.

“Among the three candidates, Amaechi was the one moving around, working hard to see that he got the ticket,” Lawal said.

Recall that before he dumped the ADC, the ex-SGF alleged that the primary election that produced Atiku was massively rigged, insisting that he has evidence to support his claims.

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, presidential candidate, Adewole Adebayo, has said that tenure elongation for the President and governor; is not Nigeria’s problem but the delivery of dividends of democracy.

Fielding questions during an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’ on Wednesday, Adebayo called for the total elimination of what he described as the ‘demon that rigs elections’ in Nigeria.

He insisted that tenure elongation of the president or governors was not the problem but the lack of a functional system.

He said, “We need a political system where the voter decides the winner. My focus is on eliminating the demon that rigs elections once and for all.

“Six-year or four-year term is not the problem. The problem is that you have to have a system that works, a system where the voter decides the winner, where nobody watches INEC as if you are watching a secret society.

“And that political parties raise ideas and new people, so that when you go to a congress or political party, you go with high hope.

“So, my focus as we are heading towards June 12, is that we must once and for all kill the demon of election rigging. We must once and for all allow the voter to vote. So, the issue of how long you stay in power and all of that is irrelevant. It is what you do when you get there.

“So, I think the present system of four years, and if you are good enough, you go for another four years, that is if the people who are actually going to the government are going there only by winning free, fair, and credible elections,” he said.