The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs, Enyinnaya Abaribe, yesterday denied the presentation of a defection letter by to the Senate.
It was learnt that 22 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators are planning to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Abaribe told reporters in Abuja that the process for defection in the Senate was clear.
He said any letter exchanged between the Senate president and any senator was considered a private affair.
The senator said since lawmakers were elected on individual basis, any of them who wanted to defect writes to the Senate personally.
Abaribe said: “The Senate, officially, is not aware of any letter about senators defecting because any letter that comes to the Senate will be read on the floor.
“So, if some senators write personal letters to the Senate President, that is strictly personal between them and the Senate President. They have not written letters for reading on the floor of the Senate.
“The same way you are aware of what is going on is the same manner we are aware of it through the newspapers. I have had cause to say this before that the process for anybody to move from one party to another is in the Constitution. The process is open and clear. It’s not something that can be misunderstood.
“Don’t forget that every senator did an election on his own. There wasn’t a joint election.
“Therefore, senators can’t write a joint letter to the Senate President about defection. It must be individual, and every person who has to leave, for whatever reason, will have to state his reason and do it personally. Until we see that, we assume that nobody is ready to go anywhere else.”
