{"id":168721,"date":"2025-07-08T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:00:31","slug":"borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc","title":{"rendered":"Borno: 2023 PDP deputy guber candidate dumps party for ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The 2023 deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State, Honourable Saleh Ahmed Kida, has resigned from the party and joined the African Democratic Congress, ADC.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation was contained in a letter dated July 4, 2025, and addressed to the PDP Ward Chairman in Kokani, Kida Ward, Hawul Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI humbly submit my resignation as a member of the PDP with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank you for the privilege and opportunity granted to me during my time in the party,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of the letter were also sent to the PDP State Chairman, Deputy Chairman (Southern Borno), and the PDP Chairman in Hawul LGA.<\/p>\n<p>Although Kida did not state his reasons for leaving, political observers believe the defection is part of a broader opposition realignment ahead of the 2027 general elections, aimed at challenging the ruling party\u2019s dominance in Borno and beyond.<\/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 2023 deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State, Honourable Saleh Ahmed Kida, has resigned from the party and joined the African Democratic Congress, ADC. His resignation was contained in a letter dated July 4, 2025, and addressed to the PDP Ward Chairman in Kokani, Kida Ward, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[118,47,254,65],"class_list":["post-168721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-adc","tag-borno","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>Borno: 2023 PDP deputy guber candidate dumps party for ADC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 2023 deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State, Honourable Saleh Ahmed Kida ...\" \/>\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\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Borno: 2023 PDP deputy guber candidate dumps party for ADC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2023 deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Borno State, Honourable Saleh Ahmed Kida ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T09:53:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T11:00:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751959923.909824.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"514\" \/>\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\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Borno: 2023 PDP deputy guber candidate dumps party for ADC\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-08T09:53:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-08T11:00:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751959923.909824.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"Borno\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/borno-2023-pdp-deputy-guber-candidate-dumps-party-for-adc\",\"name\":\"Borno: 2023 PDP deputy guber candidate dumps party for ADC - 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