{"id":70189,"date":"2022-08-14T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu"},"modified":"2022-08-14T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T14:58:08","slug":"edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu","title":{"rendered":"Edo APC berates members for joining PDP, mocks Obaseki, Shaibu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo has dismissed the defection of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>The politicians said they left the APC because Edo North Senator, Francis Alimikhena was allegedly schemed out of the primaries in May.<\/p>\n<p>Former national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole won the district\u2019s ticket and will compete against Alimikhena, now PDP\u2019s flagbearer.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by APC Assistant Publicity Secretary, Victor Osheobo said the purported exit of 64 leaders was \u201can umbrella of lies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman told the PDP to be wary of self-deceit laced with a bogus and unfounded figure of defectors.<\/p>\n<p>Osheobo noted that none of the decampees could have mustered any modicum of support from their bases.<\/p>\n<p>He said their antecedents align \u201cwith that of the governor as a serial betrayer, and the deputy governor, Mr Shaibu, a prodigal son who disgraces his supposed political \u2018father\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of the decampees, like Sen. Francis Alimikhena and Mr Lucky James, stood out like sore thumbs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The APC said the lawmaker returned to his vomit in his desperation to return to the Senate, insisting the National Assembly is not his birthright.<\/p>\n<p>The statement described James as a political trader, \u201cwhose greed and insatiable appetite for relevance is public knowledge\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Osheobo called the Edo PDP a drowning political party that has lived its life solely on betrayals, falsehood, fraud and propaganda.<\/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 All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo has dismissed the defection of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The politicians said they left the APC because Edo North Senator, Francis Alimikhena was allegedly schemed out of the primaries in May. Former national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole won the district\u2019s ticket and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,443,254,697,65,1530],"class_list":["post-70189","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-edo","tag-nigeria","tag-obaseki","tag-pdp","tag-shaibu"],"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>Edo APC berates members for joining PDP, mocks Obaseki, Shaibu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo has dismissed the defection of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party (P ...\" \/>\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\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo APC berates members for joining PDP, mocks Obaseki, Shaibu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo has dismissed the defection of its members to the Peoples Democratic Party (P ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-14T13:41:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-14T14:58:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_15-62f90d622c870.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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Edo APC berates members for joining PDP, mocks Obaseki, Shaibu\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-14T13:41:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-14T14:58:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu\"},\"wordCount\":249,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_15-62f90d622c870.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Edo\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obaseki\",\"PDP\",\"Shaibu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-berates-members-for-joining-pdp-mocks-obaseki-shaibu\",\"name\":\"Edo APC berates members for joining PDP, mocks Obaseki, Shaibu - 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