{"id":6970,"date":"2026-01-07T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:10:53","slug":"rep-ugochinyere-dumps-pdp-for-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/rep-ugochinyere-dumps-pdp-for-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Ugochinyere Dumps PDP for APP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200eRep. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the lawmaker representing Ideato Federal Constituency of Imo State in the House of Representatives, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the Action Peoples Party, APP.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eHe announced his defection on Wednesday, during a political gathering held in Akokwa, Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eThe lawmaker said the prolonged internal crisis within the PDP is the reason for his defection.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eHe described the crisis as a \u201clong-standing squabble\u201d that has continued to weaken the party\u2019s cohesion and focus.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eAccording to him, the situation has escalated due to the actions of some party leaders who, he alleged, behave as though the PDP is their personal enterprise.<br \/>\n\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200eRep. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the lawmaker representing Ideato Federal Constituency of Imo State in the House of Representatives, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the Action Peoples Party, APP. \u200e \u200eHe announced his defection on Wednesday, during a political gathering held in Akokwa, Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State. \u200e \u200eThe lawmaker said the prolonged internal crisis within the PDP is the reason for his defection. \u200e \u200eHe described the crisis as a \u201clong-standing squabble\u201d that has continued to weaken the party\u2019s cohesion and focus. \u200e \u200eAccording to him, the situation has escalated due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2090,1912,32],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-app","tag-ikenga-imo-ugochinyere","tag-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southeastposts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}