{"id":81534,"date":"2026-01-13T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81534"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:13:10","slug":"oni-dumps-sdp-for-apc-registers-in-ekiti-ahead-of-2026-2027-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/13\/oni-dumps-sdp-for-apc-registers-in-ekiti-ahead-of-2026-2027-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Oni Dumps SDP for APC, Registers in Ekiti Ahead of 2026, 2027 Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David and Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni, has defected from the Social Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, registering as a member at his country home in Ifaki Ekiti.<br \/>\nThe Coordinator of the APC electronic registration exercise in Ekiti, Adesola Adedayo, confirmed the development on Monday in Ado Ekiti, describing the move as a major boost to the ruling party.<br \/>\nAdedayo, who is also the Commissioner for Youth Development, said Oni registered on Sunday, adding that his defection has strengthened the party\u2019s base and given fresh momentum to the ongoing e registration exercise.<br \/>\nHe noted that Oni, a former PDP governor between 2007 and 2010 and SDP governorship candidate in the 2022 election, remains a strong grassroots politician whose return to the APC signals a significant political realignment ahead of the 2026 Ekiti governorship election and the 2027 general elections.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the development will further energise the APC at the grassroots and consolidate its structures across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David and Olokuta Rofiat Former Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni, has defected from the Social Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, registering as a member at his country home in Ifaki Ekiti. The Coordinator of the APC electronic registration exercise in Ekiti, Adesola Adedayo, confirmed the development on Monday in Ado Ekiti, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81534","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\/81534","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=81534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81536,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81534\/revisions\/81536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}