{"id":77216,"date":"2025-10-23T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77216"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:59:47","slug":"akpabio-lawmakers-defection-to-apc-motivated-by-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/akpabio-lawmakers-defection-to-apc-motivated-by-patriotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio: Lawmakers\u2019 Defection to APC Motivated by Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio says the recent defections of opposition lawmakers to the All Progressives Congress (APC), are driven by patriotism and confidence in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio spoke on Wednesday after leading Senators Agom Jarigbe (Cross River North) and Kaila Samaila (Bauchi North), who recently defected from the PDP, to meet President Tinubu at the State House, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said the lawmakers\u2019 decision reflected faith in the president\u2019s reforms and commitment to national development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found it expedient to join in building Nigeria under Mr President\u2019s policies that have turned things around,\u201d Akpabio said.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Jarigbe added that he joined the APC to support Tinubu\u2019s efforts in delivering the dividends of democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Senate President Godswill Akpabio says the recent defections of opposition lawmakers to the All Progressives Congress (APC), are driven by patriotism and confidence in President Bola Tinubu\u2019s leadership. Akpabio spoke on Wednesday after leading Senators Agom Jarigbe (Cross River North) and Kaila Samaila (Bauchi North), who recently defected from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77216","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\/77216","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=77216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77218,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77216\/revisions\/77218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}