Nigeria, May 8 -- Music icon Innocent "2Baba" Idibia's wife, Natasha Osawaru, a member of the Edo State House of Assembly, has left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).

The lawmaker was received into the party alongside former Gombe State Deputy Governor, John Yoriyo, and other political figures by the party's national leader, Seriake Dickson, among others.

They joined the party at its headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, as revealed in a video posted on the party's Facebook page.

Before the defection announcement, the 31-year-old had declared her re-election bid for the Egor Constituency seat in the state House of Assembly on her Instagram page on Thursday.

She announced that she would contest u...