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The lawmaker’s defection brings to four the number of lawmakers that have joined the APC on the floor of the house since Tuesday.
Onuigbo’s defection was announced by Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, at plenary on Thursday.
The lawmaker cited crisis and impunity in his local government chapter of the PDP as his reason for defection.
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“The past months have witnessed intense crisis bordering on tyranny, arising from lack of internal democracy and downright impunity in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),” Onuigbo’s letter reads.
“This crisis has seriously distracted genuine leaders from effectively carrying out their primary responsibility of providing leadership to our people who, as it is, have been starved of progressive leadership.
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Two members of the House of Representatives announced their defections at the plenary on Tuesday.
While Aliyu Datti Yau from Kano State defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, Shiddi Usman Danjuma from Taraba State defected from All Progressives Grand Alliance to the APC.
The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, read their letters of defection to members on the floor.
The Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu; and Deputy Minority Leader, Toby Okechukwu, separately raised points of order to fault the defections.
Both Elumelu and Okechukwu argued that the reason cited by the lawmakers for their defections, which was that there were crises and divisions in their former parties, was untrue and invalid.