{"id":67655,"date":"2025-06-09T19:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67655"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:34:31","slug":"edo-south-senator-dumps-labour-party-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/09\/edo-south-senator-dumps-labour-party-for-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo South Senator Dumps Labour Party for APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senator Neda Imasuen, who represents Edo South Senatorial District, has announced his defection from the Labour Party to the All Progressives Congress, citing internal crises within the LP as his reason.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Benin City, the senator said he would formally join the APC on June 12 as part of activities marking his second year in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>He described the move as a \u201cstrategic decision\u201d and dismissed suggestions that it was motivated by opportunism.<\/p>\n<p>Imasuen, who chairs the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions, outlined some of his accomplishments, including resolving over 20 public petitions across the country, sponsoring the bill for the establishment of the Federal College of Education in Abudu, and initiating several constituency projects.<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted programmes such as vocational training, scholarships, rural health initiatives for traditional birth attendants, and agricultural support that has improved rubber, cocoa, and cashew production in Edo South.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for greater collaboration among local governments to drive development, Imasuen reaffirmed his commitment to youth empowerment, rural development, and continued support for President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Senator Neda Imasuen, who represents Edo South Senatorial District, has announced his defection from the Labour Party to the All Progressives Congress, citing internal crises within the LP as his reason. Speaking in Benin City, the senator said he would formally join the APC on June 12 as part of activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67655","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67657,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67655\/revisions\/67657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}