 Theo Progressive Congress' APC Reaver State has claimed the lack of governance in the state as the reason for the defection of 27 members of the state assembly from the People's Democratic Party PDP to the APC. The chairman of the APC Reaver State Caretaker Committee, Tony Okochawa, addressed newsmen in Plotarkot, said some lawmakers in the state confided in him. Okochawa says the move is a good and calculated one which would make his party a majority in the House of Assembly. The APC CTC chairman said it is unacceptable for Governor Fubara to give credence to only four Assembly members over 27. On the floor of the Assembly, and initially it appeared or it seemed like a rumor, yet we saw them flaunt APC flags, but we have been officially communicated of that move. The Assembly members who had defected had confided in me that leadership, governance in Reaver State had to run aground, that there is no governance in Reaver State. Okochawa commanded the lawmakers, saying the cross-cafting would encourage proper checks and balancing in the government. But you and I are witnesses to the fact that it is a complete aberration. Nothing is happening in the state. There is hunger in the land. What you only hear is two persons declaring themselves as speaker of Reaver State of Assembly. Is that the reason why Reaver State voted for them? The answer is no. And so there has to be check and balances. Not that the 27 members have defected to the all-progressive Congress. It's going to be a check on the government because, of course, they have said to me that they would never be in a government that is from this. And so we commend them for this decision that they have taken. Even though maybe I would have thought that they took this decision too late. The lawmakers who defected from the PDP to the APC are those under the faction of them but the speaker of the House, Martin Amowale, a faction loyal to the Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.