{"id":61200,"date":"2025-02-14T11:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61200"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T11:46:12","slug":"defectors-will-return-pdp-forum-predicts-amid-political-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/defectors-will-return-pdp-forum-predicts-amid-political-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Defectors Will Return, PDP Forum Predicts Amid Political Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Forum of Former Speakers has predicted that politicians who recently defected\u2014mainly to the All Progressives Congress (APC)\u2014will soon return, citing PDP\u2019s strength and national appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting with PDP minority leaders in the House of Representatives, Forum Chairman Inuwa Garba dismissed recent defections as unconstitutional and politically misguided.<\/p>\n<p>He urged party members to stay united, asserting that the PDP remains Nigeria\u2019s best hope for governance.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes amid concerns over high-profile defections, including Senator Ned Nwoko and Rep.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Magaji, ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi\u00a0 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Forum of Former Speakers has predicted that politicians who recently defected\u2014mainly to the All Progressives Congress (APC)\u2014will soon return, citing PDP\u2019s strength and national appeal. Following a meeting with PDP minority leaders in the House of Representatives, Forum Chairman Inuwa Garba dismissed recent defections as unconstitutional and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61202,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61200\/revisions\/61202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}