{"id":432248,"date":"2022-01-20T13:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=432248"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:51:02","slug":"yobe-former-apc-guber-candidate-1000-others-defect-to-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=432248","title":{"rendered":"Yobe: Former APC guber candidate, 1,000 others defect to PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Aji Kolomi, a former All Progressives Congress (APC) 2019 gubernatorial candidate in Yobe State, was among hundreds of members of the ruling party who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recently.<\/p>\n<p>He was welcomed into the PDP\u2019s fold alongside hundreds of his supporters at the main opposition party\u2019s secretariat in Damaturu, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>PDP\u2019s Publicity Secretary in Yobe, Hon. Salihu Mohammed Baba, in a statement, claimed that after the party has kicked off \u201cOperation Flush APC In The State\u201d, it has received over 1,000 APC loyalists into its fold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-928530 size-full\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/Yobe-Former-APC-guber-candidate-1000-others-defect-to-PDP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\"><\/p>\n<p>He said the new entrants, comprising of men and women, were mostly from Abasha, Layin PS and Malaria areas within the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the operation continues steadily, we welcome the new entrants into our great party the People\u2019s Democratic Party, (PDP), and urge our teeming youth to answer the clarion call by joining PDP for better Yobe and Nigeria\u201d, he appealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Aji Kolomi, a former All Progressives Congress (APC) 2019 gubernatorial candidate in Yobe State, was among hundreds of members of the ruling party who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recently. He was welcomed into the PDP\u2019s fold alongside hundreds of his supporters at the main opposition party\u2019s secretariat in Damaturu, the state capital. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432249,"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":[3,4],"tags":[2658,29,30,359],"class_list":["post-432248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-apc","tag-arewa","tag-yobe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432248","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=432248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/432249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}