{"id":3916,"date":"2023-10-29T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2023-10-29T17:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T17:11:44","slug":"6-pdp-lga-chairmen-resign-in-ebonyi-set-to-join-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/10\/29\/6-pdp-lga-chairmen-resign-in-ebonyi-set-to-join-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"6 PDP LGA Chairmen Resign in Ebonyi, Set to Join APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six local government chairmen from the People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State have tendered their resignations and are poised to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The reasons behind this move appear to be connected to the recent electoral defeat of the PDP&#8217;s governorship candidate, Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, by Governor Francis Nwifuru in the election petition tribunal in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The six PDP local government chairmen who have opted to leave the party are Agbom Friday (Ezza South), Nwofe Philip Don (lzzi), Nwobasi Ude Chizoba (Ohaozara), Chukwu Micheal O (lvo), Ifere Sunday Bright (lkwo), and Ndukwe Orji Oka (Afikpo South). They conveyed their resignations through a letter provided to the media, citing personal reasons for their decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to this development, the Chairman of the PDP in Ebonyi State, Augustine Nwazunku, urged the public to disregard the resignations, asserting that some of the departing local government chairmen are not active members of the party within the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six local government chairmen from the People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State have tendered their resignations and are poised to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The reasons behind this move appear to be connected to the recent electoral defeat of the PDP&#8217;s governorship candidate, Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, by Governor Francis Nwifuru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3916","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\/3916","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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}