{"id":196222,"date":"2026-02-26T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:25:37","slug":"akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc","title":{"rendered":"Akpata gives reason some Edo LP members moved to ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Labour Party governorship candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata has disclosed why some members of the Party in the state chose to move to the African Democratic Congress, ADC.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today monitored by DAILY POST on Wednesday, Akpata said they moved to support former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>It could be recalled that Akpata was formally received into the ADC earlier in the week. During the ceremony, that there was an assassination attempt on Peter Obi and other ADC chieftains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI moved to the ADC because I belong to a group who believe that a better Nigeria is possible.We were members of the Labour Party. December 31, 2025, the leader of that group moved to the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose of us in the Edo State Labour Party sat down and decided that the journey to a better Nigeria that we think is possible would be best traveled on this platform to continue to support Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because we recognised that supporting him at the level of the Labour Party will come to nought if we are not able to help him achieve the objective of becoming the presidential candidate of the ADC,\u201d he said.<\/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. Former Labour Party governorship candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata has disclosed why some members of the Party in the state chose to move to the African Democratic Congress, ADC. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today monitored by DAILY POST on Wednesday, Akpata said they moved to support former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":196221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-196222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-nigeria"],"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>Akpata gives reason some Edo LP members moved to ADC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Labour Party governorship candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata has disclosed why some members of the Party in t ...\" \/>\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\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Akpata gives reason some Edo LP members moved to ADC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Labour Party governorship candidate in Edo State, Olumide Akpata has disclosed why some members of the Party in t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-26T10:21:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-26T11:25:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1772105130.872032.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"607\" \/>\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\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Akpata gives reason some Edo LP members moved to ADC\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-26T10:21:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-26T11:25:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc\"},\"wordCount\":226,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1772105130.872032.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/akpata-gives-reason-some-edo-lp-members-moved-to-adc\",\"name\":\"Akpata gives reason some Edo LP members moved to ADC - 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