{"id":221514,"date":"2020-05-29T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221514"},"modified":"2020-05-29T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T10:09:10","slug":"imo-hunger-pushing-our-members-to-apc-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221514","title":{"rendered":"Imo: Hunger pushing our members to APC &#8211; PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has said hunger caused the defection of its members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<br \/>\nPDP Acting Chairman, Martin Ejiogu, stated this at a media briefing on Thursday.<br \/>\nFormer chairman, Charles Ezekwem, ex-Publicity Secretary, Damion\u2019s Opara, ex-Youth leader, Williams Ahanonu, among others, had defected to the APC.<br \/>\nHe said the defectors worked against the PDP during the 2019 general elections.<br \/>\nEjiogu declared that they were not relevant to PDP.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are not bothered by their exit because none of the defectors delivered their polling unit at the 2019 general elections. They were all liabilities to the party and now that they have left, we will be stronger to fight a common goal,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe official advised the APC to be wary of \u201cgold-diggers\u201d.<br \/>\nEjiogu added that their decision was selfish as they claimed that the zoning arrangement of the party did not favour them.<br \/>\nHe said they had \u201cin principle left the party a long time ago because what played out earlier today was a mere drama, a dummy from a script that had been written months before now\u201d.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has said hunger caused the defection of its members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). PDP Acting Chairman, Martin Ejiogu, stated this at a media briefing on Thursday. Former chairman, Charles Ezekwem, ex-Publicity Secretary, Damion\u2019s Opara, ex-Youth leader, Williams Ahanonu, among others, had defected to the APC. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,29,707,58],"class_list":["post-221514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-imo","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221514","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=221514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}