{"id":156495,"date":"2025-03-25T17:41:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:18:53","slug":"another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp","title":{"rendered":"Another Abia PDP House of Assembly member defects to LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The member representing Isuikwuato constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Lucky Nweke Johnson has resigned from his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the Labour Party (LP).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson in a letter he addressed to the Speaker, Emmanuel Emeruwa, said he quit PDP because of the crises the party is having at the national and state levels.<\/p>\n<p>The Isuikwuato constituency representative also defended his decision to join LP, saying it was informed by Governor Alex Otti\u2019s \u201csterling performance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker who said he took the decision after consulting with his constituents, requested that he be henceforth addressed as a member of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that in February, the member representing Isiala Ngwa South constituency, Rowland Dennis resigned from PDP and joined the LP. The development was condenmed by Abia State chapter of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The member representing Isuikwuato constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Lucky Nweke Johnson has resigned from his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the Labour Party (LP). Johnson in a letter he addressed to the Speaker, Emmanuel Emeruwa, said he quit PDP because of the crises the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":156494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1208,5506,254,65],"class_list":["post-156495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abia","tag-lp","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"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>Another Abia PDP House of Assembly member defects to LP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The member representing Isuikwuato constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Lucky Nweke Johnson has resigned fr ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Abia PDP House of Assembly member defects to LP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The member representing Isuikwuato constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly, Lucky Nweke Johnson has resigned fr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-25T16:41:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T12:18:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742912313.803111.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Another Abia PDP House of Assembly member defects to LP\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-25T16:41:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T12:18:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp\"},\"wordCount\":163,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742912313.803111.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia\",\"LP\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/another-abia-pdp-house-of-assembly-member-defects-to-lp\",\"name\":\"Another Abia PDP House of Assembly member defects to LP - 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