No fewer than 22 aggrieved Senators serving on the platform of the All Progressives Congress were led to President Muhammadu Buhari to halt their reported defection from the party on Tuesday.
The Senators had vowed to defect from the party over the outcome of primaries in their state ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Leader of the delegation, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, said the lawmakers felt disenfranchised by the process.
Several APC lawmakers have defected recently. Appealing to the lawmakers, President Buhari said the defections were a threat to the APC’s majority in the National Assembly.
After the meeting, Kalu said the aggrieved Senators would no longer pursue defection from the APC.
“Our meeting with Mr President was successful and the issue of decamping from our party has been laid to rest”, the Chief Whip concluded.
Lately, the APC has been uneasy following the gradual loss of the party’s majority in the senate, tensions have also been heightened over the rumoured bid of the 18 other senators to defect to other political parties, after the party earlier lost seven senators to the opposition parties.