{"id":32481,"date":"2020-11-17T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32481"},"modified":"2020-11-17T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:48:43","slug":"20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc","title":{"rendered":"20,000 APP members join PDP amid Umahi\u2019s \u2018moves\u2019 to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>State, local government and ward leaders of the Action Peoples Party (APP) in Ebonyi State have joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman, Joshua Chinedum Elekwachi, made the announcement on Tuesday in Abakaliki, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>He told newsmen that the PDP is the only political party that truly resonates with the masses, not only in Ebonyi but nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Elekwachi said he is joining PDP to team up to retrieve the state from the hands of mercantilist politicians who have personalized governance and impoverished the masses.<\/p>\n<p>The politician condemned the state of the nation under the All Progressives Congress (APC) government at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am moving to the PDP together with all the members of the State Working Committee, SWC, of APP, all local government and Ward executives and over 20,000 registered members. Therefore, today, being Tuesday, 17 November 2020, the entire APP structure is hereby collapsed into the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that in the last five years, a lot has happened in Ebonyi, making the people disenchanted, neglected and sidelined.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2 amp-wp-b6a507d\" data-amp-original-style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The defection comes amid reported moves by Governor Dave Umahi<a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2020\/11\/16\/details-of-umahis-meeting-with-apc-leaders-revealed\/\">\u00a0to join the APC.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria State, local government and ward leaders of the Action Peoples Party (APP) in Ebonyi State have joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Chairman, Joshua Chinedum Elekwachi, made the announcement on Tuesday in Abakaliki, the state capital. He told newsmen that the PDP is the only political party that truly resonates with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":24668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[65,998],"class_list":["post-32481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-pdp","tag-umahi"],"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>20,000 APP members join PDP amid Umahi\u2019s \u2018moves\u2019 to APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-NigeriaState, local government and ward leaders of the Action Peoples Party (APP) in Ebonyi State have joined the Peoples\" \/>\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\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"20,000 APP members join PDP amid Umahi\u2019s \u2018moves\u2019 to APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-NigeriaState, local government and ward leaders of the Action Peoples Party (APP) in Ebonyi State have joined the Peoples\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-17T16:48:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/David-Umahi-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"325\" \/>\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\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"20,000 APP members join PDP amid Umahi\u2019s \u2018moves\u2019 to APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-17T16:48:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/David-Umahi-2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"PDP\",\"Umahi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/20000-app-members-join-pdp-amid-umahis-moves-to-apc\",\"name\":\"20,000 APP members join PDP amid Umahi\u2019s \u2018moves\u2019 to APC - 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