37 members of the House of Representatives under the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party and the African Democratic Party.

The letter of their defections was read on the floor of the House at the plenary‎ by Speaker Yakubu Dogara. He said 32 of the lawmakers defected to the PDP while four defected to the ADP.

While the loud ovation that followed the defection was in progress, another APC lawmaker, Hon Okey Jev, the Chairman Committee on Rules and Business, announced his defection from the APC to the ADC

Some of the defectors to the PDP are Honourable Aminu Shehu Shagari, Funke Adedoyin, Zakari Mohammed, Bode ‎Ayorinde, Segun Ogunwusi and Sunday Adepoju.

Four of the members from Oyo state under APC defected to the ADC.

The Speaker said that the lawmakers cited the division in their State Chapters of the APC as the reasons for their leaving the Party to pursue their political careers from where there were divisions