{"id":197679,"date":"2025-12-11T06:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=197679"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:01:33","slug":"i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=197679","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Won\u2019t Force Him!\u2019 \u2014 Gov Diri Breaks Silence on Deputy\u2019s Refusal to Join APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has spoken publicly for the first time about his deputy\u2019s refusal to follow him into the All Progressives Congress (APC).Diri said he would not compel his deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor made the statement during the weekly state executive council meeting at the \u2026<br \/>\nThe article was originally published on Politics Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has spoken publicly for the first time about his deputy\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc-300x155.jpeg",300,155,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/197679-i-wont-force-him-gov-diri-breaks-silence-on-deputys-refusal-to-join-apc.jpeg",576,297,false]},"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\/197679","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=197679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/197680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}