{"id":882237,"date":"2026-01-01T02:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/rivers-assembly-speaker-15-pdp-lawmakers-join-apc\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:21:44","slug":"rivers-assembly-speaker-15-pdp-lawmakers-join-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/01\/rivers-assembly-speaker-15-pdp-lawmakers-join-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers assembly speaker, 15 PDP lawmakers join APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, on Friday, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressive Congress (APC). The lawmakers\u2019 decision, premised on what was termed \u2018clear division\u2019 within the PDP, was announced during the assembly\u2019s plenary&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/rivers-assembly-speaker-15-pdp-lawmakers-join-apc\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Nancie Latson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, on Friday, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressive Congress (APC). The lawmakers\u2019 decision, premised on what was termed \u2018clear division\u2019 within the PDP, was announced during the assembly\u2019s plenary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43612,27524,192],"tags":[43610,8648],"class_list":{"0":"post-882237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-assembly","8":"category-rivers","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-assembly","11":"tag-rivers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882237","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=882237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}