{"id":161493,"date":"2025-05-06T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T22:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc"},"modified":"2025-05-07T00:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:23:03","slug":"all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc","title":{"rendered":"All Delta PDP Reps defect to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>All Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives members have officially defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Their defection was made public by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, during plenary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that former Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa and his successor, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, had dumped the PDP for the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Oborevwori and Okowa announced their defection during a stakeholders meeting in Asaba, Delta State.<\/p>\n<p>Following their defections, the House of Representatives member from Ideato Federal constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, had disclosed that two more state governors and 40 lawmakers on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will soon defect.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had said the PDP would be repositioned despite the defections, stressing that those who want to defect are free to leave.<\/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. All Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives members have officially defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Their defection was made public by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, during plenary on Tuesday. Recall that former Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa and his successor, Governor Sheriff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":161492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,1578,254,65],"class_list":["post-161493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-breaking","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>All Delta PDP Reps defect to APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives members have officially defected to the All Prog ...\" \/>\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\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All Delta PDP Reps defect to APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All Delta State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, House of Representatives members have officially defected to the All Prog ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-06T22:18:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-06T23:23:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746561214.176901.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\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"All Delta PDP Reps defect to APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-06T22:18:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-06T23:23:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc\"},\"wordCount\":158,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746561214.176901.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"breaking\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/all-delta-pdp-reps-defect-to-apc\",\"name\":\"All Delta PDP Reps defect to APC - 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