{"id":161262,"date":"2025-05-04T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna"},"modified":"2025-05-04T12:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T11:01:49","slug":"300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna","title":{"rendered":"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>At least 300 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kawo Ward, Kaduna North Local Government Area, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>While receiving the new members, a permanent member of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Jamilu Haruna, described the mass defection as a clear endorsement of Governor Uba Sani\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>Haruna stated that Governor Sani has, within two years in office, delivered impactful governance, ranging from infrastructural development to agricultural reform and rural transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis defection is not surprising. Even members of the opposition acknowledge Governor Uba Sani\u2019s giant strides in security, education, food security, and citizens\u2019 welfare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese achievements have set him apart from his peers and strengthened his relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This puts Kaduna in a strategic position to benefit further from the Federal Government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He assured the defectors of their full integration into APC and thanked the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Alhaji Sani Liman Kila, for his support in organising the event.<\/p>\n<p>The APC chairman of Kaduna North Local Government, Alhaji Suleiman Wada Usman, welcomed the defectors on behalf of Governor Uba Sani.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded them for what he called embracing the truth and joining the party that is genuinely committed to Kaduna State\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will be treated fairly and equally in our party. No one will be considered a second-class member,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking, the leader of the defectors, Professor Usman Muhammad, a former PDP senatorial aspirant for Kaduna Central, said he led 225 members from PDP because they believe in Governor Sani\u2019s inclusive style of governance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their qualifications and service, he faulted PDP for sidelining experienced members like himself.<\/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. At least 300 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kawo Ward, Kaduna North Local Government Area, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. While receiving the new members, a permanent member of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Jamilu Haruna, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":161261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,96,254,2540,65],"class_list":["post-161262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-kaduna","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpp","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>300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. At least 300 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kawo Ward, Kaduna North Local Government Area, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. While receiving the new members, a permanent member of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Jamilu Haruna, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-04T11:01:49+00:00\" \/>\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\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-04T11:01:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Kaduna\",\"Nigeria\",\"NNPP\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna\",\"name\":\"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-04T11:01:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg\",\"width\":1086,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna - Nigeria","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna","og_description":"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. At least 300 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kawo Ward, Kaduna North Local Government Area, have defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. While receiving the new members, a permanent member of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Jamilu Haruna, [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-05-04T11:01:49+00:00","author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna","datePublished":"2025-05-04T11:01:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna"},"wordCount":309,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg","keywords":["APC","Kaduna","Nigeria","NNPP","PDP"],"articleSection":["all news","Parties"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna","name":"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-04T11:01:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746347846.35926.jpg","width":1086,"height":720,"caption":"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/300-pdp-nnpp-members-join-apc-in-kaduna#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"300 PDP, NNPP members join APC in Kaduna"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}