{"id":68673,"date":"2022-07-18T17:14:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp"},"modified":"2022-07-18T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:58:46","slug":"zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara APC reacts to members\u2019 defection to PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has received report of some of its erstwhile members who moved to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press statement signed by the State\u2019s publicity secretary of the party, Comrade Yusuf Idris Gusau, the APC was not moved by their decision to defect.<\/p>\n<p>He said they failed to officially inform the party of their move which was not for any reason but self aggrandizement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir individual and collective loyalists have remained in the people-focused APC, thus it\u2019s bewildering to hear them claim thousands of followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as they left the APC, we are happy that the ruling party has continued to receive and welcome more decampees in the State and keeping it ahead of other political parties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has received report of some of its erstwhile members who moved to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State. According to a press statement signed by the State\u2019s publicity secretary of the party, Comrade Yusuf Idris Gusau, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":68672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,254,65,150],"class_list":["post-68673","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-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-zamfara"],"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>Zamfara APC reacts to members\u2019 defection to PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has received report of some of its erstwhile me ...\" \/>\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\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zamfara APC reacts to members\u2019 defection to PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has received report of some of its erstwhile me ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-18T16:14:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-18T17:58:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_1-62d59f2c12cad.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1313\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1182\" \/>\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\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Zamfara APC reacts to members\u2019 defection to PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-18T16:14:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-18T17:58:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_1-62d59f2c12cad.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Zamfara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/zamfara-apc-reacts-to-members-defection-to-pdp\",\"name\":\"Zamfara APC reacts to members\u2019 defection to PDP - 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