{"id":125356,"date":"2024-07-23T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc"},"modified":"2024-07-23T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T22:52:14","slug":"imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc","title":{"rendered":"Imo LP senator defects to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ezenwa Onyewuchi, the Senator representing Imo East and a member of the Labour Party, LP, has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Onyewuchi\u2019s defection letter was read on the floor of the red chamber by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest defection, the number of LP senators in the upper legislative chamber is now five.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, who doubles as the Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), was in the chamber when the letter was read.<\/p>\n<p>The Imo senator cited Section 68(1g) of the Constitution to justify his defection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision is due to the intractable division and crisis in the Labour Party that sponsored the earlier election into the Nigerian Senate,\u201d his letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe communication is therefore made pursuant to Section 68(1g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImo State and the entirety of the South-East remain united under the leadership of our performing governor, Hope Uzodimma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio, thereafter, directed the Sergeant-at-Arms to hand Onyewuchi a new seat on the aisle of the majority lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ezenwa Onyewuchi, the Senator representing Imo East and a member of the Labour Party, LP, has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Onyewuchi\u2019s defection letter was read on the floor of the red chamber by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday. With the latest defection, the number of LP senators in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":125355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,1018,5506,254],"class_list":["post-125356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-imo","tag-lp","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Imo LP senator defects to APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ezenwa Onyewuchi, the Senator representing Imo East and a member of the Labour Party, LP, has defected to the All Progre ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imo LP senator defects to APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ezenwa Onyewuchi, the Senator representing Imo East and a member of the Labour Party, LP, has defected to the All Progre ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-23T21:39:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-23T22:52:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1721762261.309902.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"485\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Imo LP senator defects to APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-23T21:39:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-23T22:52:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc\"},\"wordCount\":201,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1721762261.309902.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Imo\",\"LP\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-lp-senator-defects-to-apc\",\"name\":\"Imo LP senator defects to APC - 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