Mr. Joshua Dariye, A former governor of Plateau State, has
defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC).
Dariye, who represents the Plateau Central senatorial zone, was
said to have announced his defection on the floor of the Senate on Thursday
22nd October 2016.
The senator, who served as the
Plateau State governor from 1999 to 2007 under the PDP, was first
elected to the Senate in 2007 under the Labour Party.
In 2015, he left the LP for the PDP and contested under the umbrella
of the then ruling PDP.
In 2004, Dariye was temporally relieved of his position as the
governor when a six-month state of emergency
was imposed on the state by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. A sole
administrator was appointed to run the affairs of the state.
Though he was
reinstated in 2007, he was impeached
from office by six of a 24-member House of Assembly. But the Supreme Court
nullified his impeachment.
The former governor has been having a running battle with the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which accused him of defrauding the
state as a governor.
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