A member of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Musa Soba, has left the ruling party.
Soba, who is from Kaduna State, is one of the over 70 APC Reps who protested their loss of return ticket, but lost at the appeal panel of the APC.
Soba’s resignation letter was read on the floor to members in Abuja by the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara.
Another lawmaker from Kogi State, Mr. Hassan Omale, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the African Democratic Congress.
Meanwhile The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has reshuffled chairpersons of some of the House committees.
In an announcement on Wednesday, the speaker named Abdulmumin Jibrin, former appropriations committee chairman, to head the committee on land transport.
Mr Jibrin, a former ally of the speaker later fell out with him. He was suspended for over one year from the House for accusing the Dogara leadership of manipulating the 2016 budget.
