{"id":193452,"date":"2026-02-04T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/govs-defecting-to-align-with-centre-defies-logic"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:56:48","slug":"govs-defecting-to-align-with-centre-defies-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/govs-defecting-to-align-with-centre-defies-logic","title":{"rendered":"Govs Defecting to Align with Centre Defies Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr Sam Amadi, has frowned at the idea of state governors defecting to the ruling party to align with the centre.<\/p>\n<p>Fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television monitored on Tuesday, Amadi said such an act defies the logic of state creation.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe idea of having a state is being able to harness your resources and development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not got economics right in terms of development. So now that everybody is going to the centre, are we going back to centralizing?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo basically, we\u2019ve not got economics rights in terms of development, maybe politics, in some sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many state governors have defected from their parties into the ruling All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are the governors of Delta, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Rivers, Enugu, Kano, Plateau and recently, Taraba state.<\/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. Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr Sam Amadi, has frowned at the idea of state governors defecting to the ruling party to align with the centre. 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