{"id":152785,"date":"2019-09-16T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152785"},"modified":"2019-09-16T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:17:11","slug":"dino-melaye-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-returning-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152785","title":{"rendered":"Dino Melaye speaks on dumping PDP, returning to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kogi-election-Son-of-ex-PDP-chairman-dares-Dino-Melaye-others-on-governorship-ticket.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has denied allegation that he was planning to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Melaye made the denial on Monday via his official twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, only \u2018foolish and stupid\u2019 people will decamp from PDP to APC.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator also stated that APC will be defeated in forthcoming Kogi governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly compound fools and people with degree in stupidity will leave PDP for APC. APC will be defeated in Kogi State,\u201d Melaye tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Senator rejected the party\u2019s appointment as the Director-General of the Kogi State PDP Governorship Campaign Council.<\/p>\n<p>His tweet last Friday rejecting the offer sparked speculations that the Senator might dump the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He had tweeted, \u201cLet me state categorically that I have turned down the position of the Director-General of the Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish PDP all the best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen truth is a casualty, there is chaos.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has denied allegation that he was planning to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Melaye made the denial on Monday via his official twitter handle. According to him, only \u2018foolish and stupid\u2019 people will decamp from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132075,"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":[29,495,499,58],"class_list":["post-152785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-dino-melaye","tag-kogi","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152785","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=152785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}