{"id":82131,"date":"2023-02-09T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara"},"modified":"2023-02-09T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:58:18","slug":"hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds defect from PDP to APC in Kwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Hundreds of people, including youths and women from various political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Wednesday defected to APC in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara.<\/p>\n<p>APC Ekiti LG Chairman, Wale Awelewa, who received and handed the defectors over to Rep Tunji Olawuyi, said they had equal rights like others before them.<\/p>\n<p>Awelewa urged them to be good ambassadors of the party and work for its victory in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming the defectors into the party, Rep Olawuyi reminded them of the intervention Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq had brought to their area, including his own contributions to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman, House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness asked the defectors to reciprocate what the party had done by voting massively for the APC on Feb. 25 and March 11. (NAN).<\/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. Hundreds of people, including youths and women from various political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Wednesday defected to APC in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara. APC Ekiti LG Chairman, Wale Awelewa, who received and handed the defectors over to Rep Tunji Olawuyi, said they had equal rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,8634,34,1205,254,65,2034],"class_list":["post-82131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-apc","tag-kwara","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-uganda"],"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>Hundreds defect from PDP to APC in Kwara - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hundreds of people, including youths and women from various political parties, including 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\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hundreds defect from PDP to APC in Kwara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hundreds of people, including youths and women from various political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, P ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-09T15:28:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-09T16:58:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675947504.30.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\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Hundreds defect from PDP to APC in Kwara\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-09T15:28:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-09T16:58:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara\"},\"wordCount\":154,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675947504.30.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"APC\",\"Kwara\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/hundreds-defect-from-pdp-to-apc-in-kwara\",\"name\":\"Hundreds defect from PDP to APC in Kwara - 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