{"id":70849,"date":"2025-07-17T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70849"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:52:55","slug":"dele-momodu-dumps-pdp-joins-adc-over-party-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/17\/dele-momodu-dumps-pdp-joins-adc-over-party-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dele Momodu Dumps PDP, Joins ADC Over Party Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/p>\n<p>Veteran journalist and former presidential aspirant, Chief Dele Momodu, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing the party\u2019s takeover by antidemocratic forces.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated July 17, 2025, and addressed to the PDP Ward 4 Chairman in Ihievbe, Edo State, Momodu announced his defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p>He described the PDP as a \u201ccarcass\u201d hijacked by internal and external forces and said it was honourable to move on and join a new coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Momodu, who joined the PDP in 2021, thanked his ward leaders and pledged continued commitment to national development.<\/p>\n<p>His move adds to the wave of defections ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Veteran journalist and former presidential aspirant, Chief Dele Momodu, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing the party\u2019s takeover by antidemocratic forces. In a letter dated July 17, 2025, and addressed to the PDP Ward 4 Chairman in Ihievbe, Edo State, Momodu announced his defection to the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70849","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\/70849","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=70849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70851,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70849\/revisions\/70851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}