President of the Nigerian Senate Godswill Akpabio has stated that it looks like the African Democratic Congress, ADC, is dead.

He made the comment on Tuesday following the wave of defections by lawmakers from ADC to other political parties, specifically the National Democratic Congress, NDC, and the Labour Party, LP.

Akpabio was presiding over plenary after the Senate made public the defection of lawmakers such as Victor Umeh, who joined NDC.

The Senate President said, "Resignation from ADC and declaration for the Labour Party. Maybe all those defecting from the ADC should just compile everything in one paper and bring it so that we don’t keep announcing, announcing, announcing.

“Because I think ADC is dead.

“How many times can you defect in a month? Once. But some have done three times.”

He recommended grouping of the names based on defection choices instead of individual announcements "so that it doesn’t look like a daily ritual.

“If you are defecting from Labour, you write all of you. If you are moving from ADC, you write all of you. If you are entering NDC, you write all of you.

“Note that Senator Abaribe has moved from APGA to ADC, and now he has moved from ADC to the Labour Party,” Akpabio joked.

Meanwhile, recall that the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, witnessed a mass defection as no fewer than 17 lawmakers formally announced their exit from ADC to the National Democratic Congress, NDC, during plenary, citing internal crises within their former party.

The defectors, who cut across Kano, Anambra, Lagos, Edo and Rivers states, read separate letters on the floor of the House.

The lawmakers attributed their decision to what they described as “unresolved crises from the national to ward levels” in the ADC.