{"id":40831,"date":"2021-04-10T18:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=40831"},"modified":"2021-04-10T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T16:14:45","slug":"prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Prof Jerry Gana, top political leaders join PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana and other top political leaders on Saturday joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>The defection took place at the North Central Zonal Congress of the party taking place in Makurdi, Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>Others who joined the opposition party were Barrister Humphrey Abah, Ambassador Mrs Esther Audu and Hon Adakole Ijogi.<\/p>\n<p>The defectors were received into the PDP by leader of the party in the North Central Zone, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jerry Gana who spoke on behalf of the defectors said PDP will reclaim power in all the states of the North Central Zone currently being ruled by the APC and Nigeria at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana and other top political leaders on Saturday joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The defection took place at the North Central Zonal Congress of the party taking place in Makurdi, Benue State. Others who joined the opposition party were Barrister Humphrey Abah, Ambassador Mrs Esther [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,3793,254,65],"class_list":["post-40831","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-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-jerry-gana","tag-nigeria","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>Prof Jerry Gana, top political leaders join PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana and other top political leaders on Saturday joined the Peoples Demo ...\" \/>\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\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prof Jerry Gana, top political leaders join PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana and other top political leaders on Saturday joined the Peoples Demo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-10T18:18:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6071cec843554.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Prof Jerry Gana, top political leaders join PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-10T18:18:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp\"},\"wordCount\":125,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6071cec843554.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"jerry gana\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/prof-jerry-gana-top-political-leaders-join-pdp\",\"name\":\"Prof Jerry Gana, top political leaders join PDP - 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