{"id":16936,"date":"2023-12-11T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16936"},"modified":"2023-12-11T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:26:57","slug":"27-rivers-pdp-lawmakers-defect-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16936","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 the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state to the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,8156,755],"class_list":["post-16936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-pdp-lawmakers","tag-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16938,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16936\/revisions\/16938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}