{"id":63320,"date":"2022-04-18T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:10:37","slug":"yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara","title":{"rendered":"Yari, Marafa officially dump APC for PDP in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul Aziz Yari, Senator Kabiru Garba Mafara and their supporters have finally dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC) and embraced the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n

Addressing newsmen in Gusau, the State capital on Sunday, the PDP Chairman, Bala Mande said, the party has received Yari, Marafa and other top APC members who have defected to the PDP with their teeming supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to officially announce to you of the joining of our great party, the PDP, by the former Governor, His Excellency, Alhaji Abdul Aziz Yari, Senator Kabiru Garba Mafara and their supporters\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are now PDP members, we have reached an agreement and we are going to implement the agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have agreed to work together as one political entity in one party, the PDP for the success of the party in the State.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have also agreed to work extra hard to reclaim the lost mandate of Zamfara State in 2023 and save its people from their present predicament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have given the stakeholders a complete update of where we are as a result of this development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chairman noted that the two political heavyweights in the State would be officially received in Gusau, the State capital<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul Aziz Yari, Senator Kabiru Garba Mafara and their supporters have finally dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC) and embraced the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Addressing newsmen in Gusau, the State capital on Sunday, the PDP Chairman, Bala Mande said, the party has received Yari, Marafa and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,3901,254,65,1306,150],"class_list":["post-63320","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-marafa","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-yari","tag-zamfara"],"yoast_head":"\nYari, Marafa officially dump APC for PDP in Zamfara - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul Aziz Yari, Senator Kabiru Garba Mafara and their supporters have finally dumped ...\" \/>\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\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yari, Marafa officially dump APC for PDP in Zamfara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul Aziz Yari, Senator Kabiru Garba Mafara and their supporters have finally dumped ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-18T08:04:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-18T09:10:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_3-625d2af744fa1.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\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\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Yari, Marafa officially dump APC for PDP in Zamfara\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-18T08:04:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-18T09:10:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/postQueueImg_3-625d2af744fa1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Marafa\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Yari\",\"Zamfara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/yari-marafa-officially-dump-apc-for-pdp-in-zamfara\",\"name\":\"Yari, Marafa officially dump APC for PDP in Zamfara - 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