{"id":4572,"date":"2023-12-11T12:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2023-12-11T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:20:19","slug":"27-rivers-pdp-lawmakers-defect-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/11\/27-rivers-pdp-lawmakers-defect-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"27 Rivers PDP lawmakers defect to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly took a new turn on Monday with twenty-seven members defecting from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state to the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lawmakers\u00a0 cited division within the PDP as the primary reason for their defection to the APC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The affected lawmakers are said to be the ones loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lawmakers, it was gathered held plenary around 8am on Monday where the decision was taken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lawmakers sat under tight security mounted at the entrance of the Assembly complex along Moscow Road in Port Harcourt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details\u00a0later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly took a new turn on Monday with twenty-seven members defecting from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}