{"id":60795,"date":"2018-11-13T00:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T23:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60795"},"modified":"2018-11-13T00:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T23:24:49","slug":"mass-exodus-hits-pdp-as-900-members-defect-to-apc-in-jigawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=60795","title":{"rendered":"Mass exodus hits PDP as 900 members defect to APC in Jigawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No fewer than 900 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa on Monday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n

The State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan announced this while receiving the defectors in Kaugama, Jigawa, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

Hassan urged them to work for the party\u2019s victory in the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour defection to APC shows that this party is becoming stronger and stronger as we approach the general elections,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The council\u2019s APC Chairman, Alhaji Yusuf Ubali, also receiving the defectors commended the defectors for their decision, saying that the party\u2019s doors were still open for more defectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do justice to anyone who has joined the APC or interested in joining the party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ubale thereafter appealed to the APC members who lost in the recent party primaries to be patient, assuring that the party leaders would reward them for their loyalty.<\/p>\n

Responding on behalf of the defectors, Alhaji Sale Marke and Alhaji Baffa Yusuf, thanked the party leaders for their hospitality and pledged to be law abiding members.<\/p>\n

Marke and Yusuf were close allies of the PDP\u2019s Jigawa Northeast Senatorial candidate, Sen. Ubali Shittu.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No fewer than 900 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa on Monday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan announced this while receiving the defectors in Kaugama, Jigawa, NAN reports. Hassan urged them to work for the party\u2019s victory in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18215,"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":[29,236,58],"class_list":["post-60795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-jigawa","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60795","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=60795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}