BY LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU

APPARENTLY jolted by the political development in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tuesday, which saw four serving governors of the party defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, members of the House of Representatives elected on the PDP platform, yesterday, summoned a strategic caucus meeting.

The meeting will hold today in room 231 at the new building, House of Representative wing of the National Assembly, Abuja.  The Speaker, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal gave the announcement to the PDP members in between debated motions at plenary, yesterday.

He said “there will be a PDP caucus meeting tomorrow. Venue is room 2.31, new building.” Though the agenda of the meeting was not made public, it is apparently believed not to be unconnected with the rumpus in the PDP occasioned by the defection of Governors Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers, Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State, Abdulfatai Ahmed of Kwara State and Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State to APC.

The movement is now signaling a dangerous alteration of the House Leadership. Fears abound that members of the House who hail from the respective states and already members of the prohibited new People Democratic Party, nPDP, would switch sides with their governors in the APC.

The implication of this is that the number of the PDP members which necessitated its hold on power via the House leadership will dwindle, consequently stripping Tambuwal of his office while paving way for an APC leadership.