{"id":71963,"date":"2025-08-04T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71963"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:09:28","slug":"senator-yaradua-dismisses-defection-rumours-reaffirms-loyalty-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/04\/senator-yaradua-dismisses-defection-rumours-reaffirms-loyalty-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Yar\u2019adua Dismisses Defection Rumour, Reaffirms Loyalty to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar\u2019adua, representing Katsina Central, has refuted claims that he is planning to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday night, Yar\u2019adua described the reports as false and the product of media mischief.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed his full commitment to the APC and his loyalty to President Bola Tinubu, urging the public and media to disregard the rumours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy loyalty to the APC and President Tinubu remains firm. Any suggestion to the contrary is baseless,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar\u2019adua, representing Katsina Central, has refuted claims that he is planning to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC), to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). In a statement on Sunday night, Yar\u2019adua described the reports as false and the product of media mischief. He reaffirmed his full commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71963","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\/71963","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=71963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71967,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71963\/revisions\/71967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}