{"id":854914,"date":"2025-06-11T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/apc-gains-68-senators-after-defections-of-kebbi-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:12:11","slug":"apc-gains-68-senators-after-defections-of-kebbi-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/apc-gains-68-senators-after-defections-of-kebbi-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"APC gains 68 senators after defections of Kebbi lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has expanded its dominance in the Nigerian Senate to 68 seats following the defection of three senators from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Kebbi State. The defectors Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North), and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South) formally announced their departure from the PDP during \u2026<br \/>\nThe article was originally published on Politics Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/apc-gains-68-senators-after-defections-of-kebbi-lawmakers\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Oladipupo Mojeed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has expanded its dominance in the Nigerian Senate to 68 seats following the defection of three senators from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Kebbi State. The defectors Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North), and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South) formally announced their departure from the PDP during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28111,22170,192],"tags":[5861,6205],"class_list":{"0":"post-854914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gains","8":"category-senators","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-gains","11":"tag-senators"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}