{"id":65204,"date":"2018-11-28T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65204"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:12:23","slug":"pdp-senator-lidani-defects-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65204","title":{"rendered":"PDP Senator, Lidani defects to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PDP-Senator-Lidani-defects-to-APC.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Senator representing Gombe South, Joshua Lidani, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Lidani\u2019s defection was disclosed by the Senate Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawan during plenary on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lawan congratulated Lidani but did not give reasons the lawmaker defected to the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me inform this Senate that very distinguished Senator Joshua Lidani representing Gombe south is defecting from the PDP to the APC. Congratulations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming few weeks after Senator representing Rivers West, Osinachukwu Ideozu defected to the APC.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator representing Gombe South, Joshua Lidani, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Lidani\u2019s defection was disclosed by the Senate Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawan during plenary on Wednesday. Lawan congratulated Lidani but did not give reasons the lawmaker defected to the ruling party. \u201cLet me inform this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65205,"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":[29,5484],"class_list":["post-65204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-politic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65204","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=65204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}