 Senator representing of your South Senatorial District caller Balogu has formally defected from the PDP to the APC. Balogu's notice of defection was contained in a letter addressed to the president of the Senate Ahmed Lawan and read at the start of plenary on Wednesday. According to the lawmaker, his decision to defect from the PDP was due to the lack of internal democracy in the party at the state level for the emergence of leaders and representatives. These developments led the foundation for the failure of the party at subsequent polls and also stand to jeopardize the political future and the interests of my people who had worked assiduously to get me elected in 2019 February elections. Rising from the meeting of the key stakeholders in my district on 27 April 2022, my people unanimously decided that I should resign my membership of the People's Democratic Party as they were ready to also reign and come en masse with me into the old Progressive Congress with immediate effect. This notification becomes exigent in order to intimidate the distinguished members of the Senate with the recent political developments in the PDP-led administration in your state and the direction in which my people and I are presently focused. Yes, thank you, Senator Kola Balogun, APC. Kola Balogun, the faction, brings the number of APC senators in the upper chamber to 70.