{"id":883685,"date":"2026-01-09T05:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/unravelling-opposition-could-nigerias-wave-of-defections-undermine-multiparty-democracy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:27:22","slug":"unravelling-opposition-could-nigerias-wave-of-defections-undermine-multiparty-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/unravelling-opposition-could-nigerias-wave-of-defections-undermine-multiparty-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"UNRAVELLING OPPOSITION: Could Nigeria\u2019s wave of defections undermine multiparty democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s political space is witnessing an increasing movement of elected officials from opposition parties to the ruling party across several states of the federation. This trend has raised renewed focus on the strength of multiparty democracy and the future balance of political competition in the country&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/2025\/12\/10\/unravelling-opposition-could-nigerias-wave-of-defections-undermine-multiparty-democracy\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=unravelling-opposition-could-nigerias-wave-of-defections-undermine-multiparty-democracy\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n W.N YEMI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s political space is witnessing an increasing movement of elected officials from opposition parties to the ruling party across several states of the federation. This trend has raised renewed focus on the strength of multiparty democracy and the future balance of political competition in the country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":883686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23925,192,43966],"tags":[8450,147320],"class_list":{"0":"post-883685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-opposition","8":"category-sports","9":"category-unravelling","10":"tag-opposition","11":"tag-unravelling"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883685","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=883685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}