{"id":3232,"date":"2023-10-15T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2023-10-15T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T08:32:31","slug":"kogi-adc-chairman-denies-defection-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/15\/kogi-adc-chairman-denies-defection-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi ADC Chairman Denies Defection to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Action Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kogi State, John Adaji, has vehemently denied recent media reports suggesting his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally in Okehi and Adavi Local Government, Adaji labeled the report as fake and urged the public to disregard it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adaji took a strong stance on his party&#8217;s unity and structure, emphasizing that the ADC had not collapsed its organization in favor of another political party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He asserted, &#8220;I stand here before you live and direct, that I am the authentic Chairman of the ADC in Kogi State. There can&#8217;t be two captains in one ship, and here I am with you and with our governorship candidate, Elder Leke Abejide. I also assure that the ADC structure is intact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adaji revealed that an expelled member of the party was behind the rumors of his defection. This individual had previously been suspended by the ADC executives due to anti-party activities and misappropriation of funds. The suspension was ratified at the ward, local government, and state levels, ultimately leading to the member&#8217;s expulsion from the party in October of the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of Action Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kogi State, John Adaji, has vehemently denied recent media reports suggesting his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally in Okehi and Adavi Local Government, Adaji labeled the report as fake and urged the public to disregard it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}