Four members of the Labour Party (LP) in the House of Representatives have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The lawmakers who left LP for APC are Tochukwu Okere (representing Owerri Municipal/Owerri North/Owerri West constituency, Imo State), Donatus Mathew (Kaduna), Bassey Akiba (Cross River), and Iyawe Esosa (Edo).

Speaker Abbas Tajudeen announced the defections on Thursday during plenary.