Nigeria, March 5 -- David Ombugadu, the two-time governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa State, on Tuesday defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he was "tired" of leading the opposition after eight years.

Mr Ombugadu announced his defection during an APC caucus meeting at the Government House in Lafia, shortly before the party's state congress held at Lafia Square.

Speaking in the presence of Governor Abdullahi Sule and other party leaders, the former PDP governorship candidate said his years in the opposition were largely spent criticising the governor's policies and programmes.

"I spent eight years on the other side, policing the policies of my elder brother. My task was to ma...