{"id":49803,"date":"2024-09-25T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49803"},"modified":"2024-09-25T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:01:45","slug":"kano-gov-yusuf-welcomes-zlp-nrm-defectors-to-nnpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/25\/kano-gov-yusuf-welcomes-zlp-nrm-defectors-to-nnpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano: Gov Yusuf welcomes ZLP, NRM defectors to NNPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Abba Yusuf has received 30 members from the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and National Rescue Movement (NRM) who defected to the ruling New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP).<\/p>\n<p>The defectors, including top-ranking members who contested various elective positions in the 2023 general elections, were welcomed at a special occasion held on Tuesday at Africa House, Government House Kano.<\/p>\n<p>According to the governor\u2019s spokesperson, Sanusi Tofa, the leaders of the two opposition parties cited Yusuf\u2019s genuine intention to build a viable society as their reason for joining NNPP.<\/p>\n<p>Shehu Nuhu, one of the defectors, praised the government\u2019s projects in health and education, which convinced him to return to NNPP.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yusuf commended the defectors\u2019 decision, assuring them that the NNPP administration would continue prioritising socio-economic development across all critical sectors in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said his administration was committed to implementing the party\u2019s manifesto and Kwankwasiyya ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Abba Yusuf has received 30 members from the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and National Rescue Movement (NRM) who defected to the ruling New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP). The defectors, including top-ranking members who contested various elective positions in the 2023 general elections, were welcomed at a special occasion held on Tuesday at Africa House, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":49804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49803","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49805,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49803\/revisions\/49805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}