{"id":73271,"date":"2018-12-27T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73271"},"modified":"2018-12-27T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T08:04:42","slug":"2019-ex-delta-speaker-ochei-speaks-on-dumping-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73271","title":{"rendered":"2019: Ex-Delta Speaker, Ochei speaks on dumping APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2019-Ex-Delta-Speaker-Ochei-speaks-on-dumping-APC.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Victor Ochei, has reacted to rumours that he has dumped the party.<\/p>\n<p>The former Speaker dispelled the rumours at his Onicha-Olona country home during an interactive session with the APC faithful in Ward 4, Onicha-Olona, in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The politician reassured party faithful in the state that his membership of the party is not negotiable.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI have been inundated with phone calls requesting clarification on my purported defection to another political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to use this opportunity to reassure all our party members that there is no iota of truth in that speculation. I won\u2019t quit APC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ochei said he would remain a devoted and faithful member of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving tendencies in a political party doesn\u2019t mean the party is in disarray. Rather it is natural because even within nuclear families, tendencies exist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut eventually, the family will overcome such developments and remain in existence,\u201d he added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Victor Ochei, has reacted to rumours that he has dumped the party. The former Speaker dispelled the rumours at his Onicha-Olona country home during an interactive session with the APC faithful in Ward 4, Onicha-Olona, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73272,"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":[],"class_list":["post-73271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73271","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=73271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}