The four lawmakers were received by the Secretary to the State Government.

TVC’s Ayodeji Moradeyo reports that the defection of the four lawmakers came a few hours after Dele Oloyelogun and Ogundeji Iroju emerged as the new speaker and Deputy Speaker of the assembly respectively.

Only thirteen lawmakers out of twenty six members participated in the election of the new speaker and his deputy

The duo led two  other lawmakers to pitch their tents with the APC at the the governor’s office where they were received by the Secretary to the State Government,  Ifedayo Abegunde.

The new speaker attributed their defection to the protracted crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party  (PDP)

His Deputy also threw more light on the reasons they dumped their party.

Secretary to the State Government who received the defectors, described the defection as a welcome development

With this development, APC now has Nine lawmakers in the assembly as more PDP legislators are planing to move to the ruling party

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The state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Abdulkadir said the victims had been reunited with their families and no ransome was paid.

Director of Finance, Isa Local Government, Bello Bodinga, his deputy, Abdulkadir Ibrahim; Staff Officer, Mrs Hassana Mohammed; and a member of the Medical and Health Workers Union, Bello Arzika were abducted on Sokoto-Isa Road last week.

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