{"id":190518,"date":"2025-11-15T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190518"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:31:08","slug":"legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190518","title":{"rendered":"Legislators defecting to another party is  unconstitutional \u2013 PLAC Executive Director Nwankwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, Clement Nwankwo, has said it is not constitutional for elected legislators to defect to other political parties. Nwankwo made the statement on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/10\/01\/legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, Clement Nwankwo, has said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo.png",700,700,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo-300x300.png",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo.png",640,640,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo.png",640,640,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo.png",700,700,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo.png",700,700,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo.png",700,700,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo-700x575.png",700,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190518-legislators-defecting-to-another-party-is-unconstitutional-plac-executive-director-nwankwo-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}