{"id":19688,"date":"2020-01-03T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19688"},"modified":"2020-01-03T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:32:49","slug":"imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc","title":{"rendered":"Imo: Ex-Speaker dumps PDP, joins APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Godfrey Dikeocha, a former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this after he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the PDP, hailing President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s anti-graft policy.<\/p>\n<p>Dikeocha, an erstwhile stalwart of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) confirmed his departure from the PDP at his home in Ndigbo Uvuru, Aboh Mbaise Local Government when leaders of APC visited him on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cI believe in the anti-corruption principles of Mr. President, and he is fighting it no matter the pitfalls. Despite the misgiving in the Southeast, Mr. President has started doing visible projects for the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in PDP days, we orchestrated the 2nd Niger Bridge that never took off, but today something is going on in the place, including renovation work going on in Akanu Ibiam International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoutheasterners of PDP extraction were ministers and they did nothing to upgrade the airport, but the President is doing wonderful work there despite not getting votes from the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godfrey Dikeocha, a former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He stated this after he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the PDP, hailing President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s anti-graft policy. Dikeocha, an erstwhile stalwart of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) confirmed his departure from the PDP at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,65],"class_list":["post-19688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","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>Imo: Ex-Speaker dumps PDP, joins APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Godfrey Dikeocha, a former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.He stated this after\" \/>\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\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imo: Ex-Speaker dumps PDP, joins APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Godfrey Dikeocha, a former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.He stated this after\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-03T16:32:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/PDP-APC-5d838829d5060.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"831\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Imo: Ex-Speaker dumps PDP, joins APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-03T16:32:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc\"},\"wordCount\":178,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/PDP-APC-5d838829d5060.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/imo-ex-speaker-dumps-pdp-joins-apc\",\"name\":\"Imo: Ex-Speaker dumps PDP, joins APC - 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