{"id":29086,"date":"2020-08-24T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29086"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:27:00","slug":"amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi\u2019s ally Chidi Lloyd dumps APC for PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>A former leader of Rivers State House of Assembly, Dr. Chidi Lloyd, on Monday, dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>He was formally received by Governor Nyesom Wike and some PDP leaders at the Government House, Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd, who is an ally of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, also apologised for the crisis that took place at the State House of Assembly in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Crisis erupted in the Assembly on July 9, 2013, when five\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/federal-lawmakers-resume-thursday-to-consider-2020-reviewed-budget\/\">lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0attempted to impeach the then speaker of the House, Otelemaba Amachree, who had convened a legislative session to amend certain aspects of the Rivers State budget.<\/p>\n<div class=\"abh_box abh_box_down abh_box_fancy\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: A former leader of Rivers State House of Assembly, Dr. Chidi Lloyd, on Monday, dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was formally received by Governor Nyesom Wike and some PDP leaders at the Government House, Port Harcourt. Lloyd, who is an ally of the Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-29086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-amaechi"],"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>Amaechi\u2019s ally Chidi Lloyd dumps APC for PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:A former leader of Rivers State House of Assembly, Dr. Chidi Lloyd, on Monday, dumped the All\" \/>\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\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amaechi\u2019s ally Chidi Lloyd dumps APC for PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:A former leader of Rivers State House of Assembly, Dr. Chidi Lloyd, on Monday, dumped the All\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-24T17:27:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Amaechi-Umana.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\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\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Amaechi\u2019s ally Chidi Lloyd dumps APC for PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-24T17:27:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp\"},\"wordCount\":118,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Amaechi-Umana.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Amaechi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amaechis-ally-chidi-lloyd-dumps-apc-for-pdp\",\"name\":\"Amaechi\u2019s ally Chidi Lloyd dumps APC for PDP - 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