{"id":83092,"date":"2026-02-27T10:13:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83092"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:13:01","slug":"adamawa-governor-fintiri-defects-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/27\/adamawa-governor-fintiri-defects-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamawa Governor Fintiri Defects to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has formally defected to the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In a statewide broadcast on Friday, Fintiri announced that members of his cabinet and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state had moved with him to the ruling party, ending weeks of speculation about his political future.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, 15 members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, including Speaker Bathiya Wesley and Deputy Speaker Buba Jijiwa, resigned from the PDP, citing the party\u2019s lingering internal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>With the defection, the PDP is left with three governors nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has formally defected to the All Progressives Congress. In a statewide broadcast on Friday, Fintiri announced that members of his cabinet and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state had moved with him to the ruling party, ending weeks of speculation about his political future. Earlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83092","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\/83092","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=83092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83096,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83092\/revisions\/83096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}