{"id":27775,"date":"2020-07-24T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=27775"},"modified":"2020-07-24T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:35:06","slug":"yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc","title":{"rendered":"Yakubu Dogara dumps PDP, returns to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu Dogara, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, has decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Dogara\u2019s defection was disclosed to Channels Television by the acting Chairman of APC, Mai Mala Buni.<\/p>\n<p>Buni and Dogara were said to have met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.<\/p>\n<p>Dogara, according to the report, will address the public later.<\/p>\n<p>The former Speaker who was an APC member had defected to the PDP during the last general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Yakubu Dogara, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, has decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Dogara\u2019s defection was disclosed to Channels Television by the acting Chairman of APC, Mai Mala Buni. Buni and Dogara were said to have met with President Muhammadu Buhari at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[97,65,433],"class_list":["post-27775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-buhari","tag-pdp","tag-yakubu"],"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>Yakubu Dogara dumps PDP, returns to APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Yakubu Dogara, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, has decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party,\" \/>\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\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yakubu Dogara dumps PDP, returns to APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Yakubu Dogara, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, has decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-24T17:35:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Mahmood-Yakubu12-lead.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\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<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\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Yakubu Dogara dumps PDP, returns to APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-24T17:35:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc\"},\"wordCount\":94,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Mahmood-Yakubu12-lead.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"PDP\",\"yakubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yakubu-dogara-dumps-pdp-returns-to-apc\",\"name\":\"Yakubu Dogara dumps PDP, returns to APC - 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