{"id":113312,"date":"2019-05-03T08:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=113312"},"modified":"2019-05-03T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:50:20","slug":"pdp-minority-leader-defects-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=113312","title":{"rendered":"PDP Minority Leader defects to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Benue-elections-PDP-vows-to-drag-APC-to-tribunal-over-votes-obtained-during-presidential-guber-polls.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Mr Olawale Alausa, the Minority Leader, Ogun House of Assembly, on Thursday, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that the lawmaker who represents Ijebu-Ode constituency announced his defection in a letter dated April 23, and read by the Speaker, Mr Suraj Adekunbi during plenary in Abeokuta.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator said he took the decision after due consultations with his constituents and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to notify your good office of my decision to join the APC after due consultations with my constituents, \u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his response, the speaker wished him well in his new party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are welcome to the next level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 26 members of the house, APC now has 18, APM three, ADC three, while PDP has two.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Olawale Alausa, the Minority Leader, Ogun House of Assembly, on Thursday, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). NAN reports that the lawmaker who represents Ijebu-Ode constituency announced his defection in a letter dated April 23, and read by the Speaker, Mr Suraj Adekunbi during plenary in Abeokuta. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,29,5898,58],"class_list":["post-113312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-defection","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}