{"id":17643,"date":"2024-12-12T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2024-12-12T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:46:00","slug":"another-lp-member-defects-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/another-lp-member-defects-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Another LP member defects to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Ajang Iliya, a member of the Labour Party (LP) in the House of Representatives, representing the Jos South\/Jos East Federal Constituency, Plateau State, has switched to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>It happened less than a week after the party lost five members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>The House Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas announced Mr Ajang&#8217;s defection during the plenary session.<\/p>\n<p>While reading the letter to APC, he cited <em>\u201cthe crisis in the leadership of the Labour Party,\u201d<\/em> and other causes for the switch.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ajang said he finds it difficult to support the policies of the party on different situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Ajang Iliya, a member of the Labour Party (LP) in the House of Representatives, representing the Jos South\/Jos East Federal Constituency, Plateau State, has switched to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). It happened less than a week after the party lost five members to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The House Speaker, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[494,2028,2027],"class_list":{"0":"post-17643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-all-progressives-congress-apc","9":"tag-labour-party-lp","10":"tag-mr-ajang-iliya"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17647,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions\/17647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}