{"id":64657,"date":"2025-04-23T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64657"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:25:00","slug":"oborevwori-pdp-loses-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/23\/oborevwori-pdp-loses-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Oborevwori: PDP Loses to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chidera Esther<\/p>\n<p>Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, dealing a major blow to the PDP and altering the political landscape of the South-South region.<\/p>\n<p>The defection was made public after a strategic meeting held behind closed doors at the Government House in Asaba.<\/p>\n<p>Oborevwori, who secured the governorship under the PDP in 2023, was warmly welcomed by top APC leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Though the governor has not detailed his reasons, observers see the move as a strategic realignment ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>His shift signals growing momentum for the APC in a region traditionally dominated by the PDP, and could inspire further political realignments across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chidera Esther Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, dealing a major blow to the PDP and altering the political landscape of the South-South region. The defection was made public after a strategic meeting held behind closed doors at the Government House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64657","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\/64657","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64659,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64657\/revisions\/64659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}