{"id":25647,"date":"2020-05-29T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25647"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:44:24","slug":"hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Hunger pushing our members to APC \u2013 PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has said hunger caused the defection of its members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>PDP Acting Chairman, Martin Ejiogu, stated this at a media briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Former chairman, Charles Ezekwem, ex-Publicity Secretary, Damion\u2019s Opara, ex-Youth leader, Williams Ahanonu, among others, had defected to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>He said the defectors worked against the PDP during the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Ejiogu declared that they were not relevant to PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not bothered by their exit because none of the defectors delivered their polling unit at the 2019 general elections. They were all liabilities to the party and now that they have left, we will be stronger to fight a common goal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The official advised the APC to be wary of \u201cgold-diggers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ejiogu added that their decision was selfish as they claimed that the zoning arrangement of the party did not favour them.<\/p>\n<p>He said they had \u201cin principle left the party a long time ago because what played out earlier today was a mere drama, a dummy from a script that had been written months before now\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has said hunger caused the defection of its members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). PDP Acting Chairman, Martin Ejiogu, stated this at a media briefing on Thursday. Former chairman, Charles Ezekwem, ex-Publicity Secretary, Damion\u2019s Opara, ex-Youth leader, Williams Ahanonu, among others, had defected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,65],"class_list":["post-25647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>Hunger pushing our members to APC \u2013 PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has said hunger caused the defection of its members to the ruling All Progressives Congress\" \/>\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\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hunger pushing our members to APC \u2013 PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has said hunger caused the defection of its members to the ruling All Progressives Congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-29T15:44:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/c3821468b17f463c93f627fbf831ede8_18.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"998\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"562\" \/>\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\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Hunger pushing our members to APC \u2013 PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-29T15:44:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/c3821468b17f463c93f627fbf831ede8_18.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp\",\"name\":\"Hunger pushing our members to APC \u2013 PDP - 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