{"id":17839,"date":"2024-12-16T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=17839"},"modified":"2024-12-16T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:01:36","slug":"former-minister-of-youth-and-sports-development-resigns-from-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/former-minister-of-youth-and-sports-development-resigns-from-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development resigns from PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to the Ubandawaki Ward chairman of the party in Ilorin, on December 16, 2024 states that the decision as a tough one but it is best option to choose.<\/p>\n<p>He said, <em>\u201cThe decision of what to do and where to go will be taken in the future, and that\u2019s left to God.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recall that most of the members have been defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Labour Party member in the House of Representatives from Plateau State, Rep. Dalyop Chollom representing Barkin Ladi\/Riyom Federal constituency switched to the All Progressive Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Four lawmakers which includes Rep.Tochukwu Chinedu Okere (LP, Imo), Rep. Donatus Matthew (LP,Kaduna), Rep. Akiba Bassey (LP, Cross River) and Rep.Esosa Iyawe (LP, Edo) have defected APC . Also, a member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defected to APC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a letter addressed to the Ubandawaki Ward chairman of the party in Ilorin, on December 16, 2024 states that the decision as a tough one but it is best option to choose. He said, \u201cThe decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2098,2097],"class_list":{"0":"post-17839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-former-minister-of-youth-and-sports-development","9":"tag-mallam-bolaji-abdullahi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839","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=17839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17843,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839\/revisions\/17843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}