{"id":32615,"date":"2020-11-19T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32615"},"modified":"2020-11-19T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:48:00","slug":"wike-reveals-another-pdp-governor-will-follow-umahi-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/wike-reveals-another-pdp-governor-will-follow-umahi-to-apc","title":{"rendered":"Wike reveals another PDP Governor will follow Umahi to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said another Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor will follow Dave Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State, to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Wike stated this while appearing on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018Politics Today\u2019 programme on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you there is one PDP governor that will leave. He is not leaving because of anything but he will come up with an excuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point is that these are the people who have been playing anti-party, who have been romancing with the APC in the night and coming to the PDP in the daytime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy problem with our party is that when you speak the truth, they will want to crucify you. I have raised this issue several times,\u201d Wike said.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, refused to disclose the name of the PDP Governor planning to jump ship, saying \u201cI won\u2019t tell you that. But you journalists know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wike also claimed that Umahi, who recently defected to the APC, has always been disloyal to the PDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said another Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor will follow Dave Umahi, the Governor of Ebonyi State, to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Wike stated this while appearing on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018Politics Today\u2019 programme on Wednesday. \u201cI can tell you there is one PDP governor that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,34,254,65,998,454],"class_list":["post-32615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-umahi","tag-wike"],"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>Wike reveals another PDP Governor will follow Umahi to APC - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/parties\/wike-reveals-another-pdp-governor-will-follow-umahi-to-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wike reveals another PDP Governor will follow Umahi to APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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