{"id":222284,"date":"2026-04-26T03:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222284"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:48:20","slug":"shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222284","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\" 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc.webp",640,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc.webp",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc.webp",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc.webp",640,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc.webp",640,360,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc.webp",640,360,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc.webp",640,360,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222284-shock-in-politics-as-pdp-senator-defects-to-apc-590x360.webp",590,360,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\/222284","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=222284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}