{"id":74265,"date":"2025-08-26T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74265"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:57:01","slug":"gbenga-daniel-dismisses-pdp-defection-rumours-reaffirms-commitment-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/26\/gbenga-daniel-dismisses-pdp-defection-rumours-reaffirms-commitment-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Gbenga Daniel Dismisses PDP Defection Rumours, Reaffirms Commitment to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Ogun State Governor and Senator representing Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel, has dismissed speculations suggesting he plans to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), insisting that he remains a committed member of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>The clarification follows his recent suspension, alongside Mr. Kunle Folarin, by the Ogun State chapter of the APC over alleged anti-party activities, which had sparked rumours of a possible defection.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, the OGD Media Office described such reports as false, stressing Daniel\u2019s continued loyalty to the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, Senator Gbenga Daniel is and remains a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, a Senator and remains on the platform of the APC,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel\u2019s reaffirmation is seen as an effort to quell speculations about political realignment ahead of future elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Former Ogun State Governor and Senator representing Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel, has dismissed speculations suggesting he plans to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), insisting that he remains a committed member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The clarification follows his recent suspension, alongside Mr. Kunle Folarin, by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74265","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\/74265","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=74265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74267,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265\/revisions\/74267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}