Nigeria, March 11 -- Rivers West Senator Banigo Ipalibo has resigned her membership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mrs Banigo, a former deputy governor of Rivers State, who served from 2015 to 2023 under Nyesom Wike as governor, announced her defection in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during plenary on Tuesday.

She explained that her decision to leave the opposition party was due to the irreconcilable leadership crisis within the PDP, the platform on which she was elected deputy governor and later as senator in Nigeria's highest legislative chamber.

The senator said she consulted extensively with her constituents, political associates and o...