The
All Progressives Congress will firmly be in control of the 8th House of
Representatives as the majority party with over 214 members. There are a total
of 360 seats in the second chamber of the National Assembly. Figures
emerging from the outcome of the March 28 National Assembly poll, show that APC
members are now 214, against the Peoples Democratic Party, which has 125
lawmakers.
The
statistics gives a gap of 89 between the APC and the PDP in favour of the former.
The
figures, which PUNCH obtained on yesterday
[April 7], exclude the 11 federal constituency seats in Jigawa State, where
election has yet to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral
Commission.
When
elections for the 11 seats are conducted, the APC will possibly get additional
seats, meaning that its numerical strength in the House may be well above 214
at inauguration on June 6.
Three
other political parties, Labour Party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance and
Accord Party, share the balance of 10 seats, bringing the total to 360. The
distribution of the figures shows that the APC has the highest membership haul
from the North-West with 81 lawmakers, as against the PDP’s zero score for now.
It
is followed by the South-West, where it won 47 seats compared to the PDP’s 20. In
the North-Central, the party got 41 seats and left eight for the PDP. The
APC’s performance in the North-East was 40 as against the seven seats won by
the PDP.
The
PDP’s strongest zone is the South-South, where it produced 52 members, compared
to the APC’s three. The three seats came from Edo State. The
current majority party won 38 seats in the South-East, leaving only three for
the APC in Imo State.
A
further breakdown indicates that the APC did not win any seat in Ebonyi,
Anambra, Enugu and Abia states. Same goes for the South-South states of Rivers,
Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers and Bayelsa, where it did not produce any
lawmaker.
However,
the APC took all the seats in Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi
in the North-West. In its second strongest zone (South-West), it got 19 seats
out of 24 in Lagos; 12 in Oyo State; seven in Osun; five in Ondo and four in
Ogun.
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