{"id":292957,"date":"2026-04-29T18:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292957"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:37:31","slug":"shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292957","title":{"rendered":"Shock in Politics as PDP Senator Defects to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jiya, senator representing Niger South senatorial district, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday. In a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and read during plenary on Wednesday, Jiya cited internal disputes within his former party as the reason for his resignation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/247updates.com.ng\/shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jiya, senator representing Niger South senatorial district, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday. In a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and read during plenary on Wednesday, Jiya cited internal disputes within his former party as the reason for his resignation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292957"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=292957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}