{"id":43449,"date":"2021-05-20T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=43449"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:47:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:47:04","slug":"gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc","title":{"rendered":"Gov Ben Ayade dumps PDP for APC"},"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>Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State on Thursday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Ayade\u2019s CPS, Christian Ita confirmed the development to DAILY POST.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Governor made his defection known in a meeting with six APC governors who visited him at the Government House.<\/p>\n<p>Details later\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State on Thursday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ayade\u2019s CPS, Christian Ita confirmed the development to DAILY POST. He said the Governor made his defection known in a meeting with six APC governors who visited him at the Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,4260,1578,254,65],"class_list":["post-43449","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-apc","tag-ben-ayade","tag-breaking","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>Gov Ben Ayade dumps PDP for APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State on Thursday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives ...\" \/>\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\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov Ben Ayade dumps PDP for APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State on Thursday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-20T16:42:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60a67641cac61.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gov Ben Ayade dumps PDP for APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-20T16:42:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc\"},\"wordCount\":66,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60a67641cac61.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Ben Ayade\",\"breaking\",\"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\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ben-ayade-dumps-pdp-for-apc\",\"name\":\"Gov Ben Ayade dumps PDP for APC - 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