{"id":902290,"date":"2026-04-29T04:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/zamfara-assembly-leadership-12-pdp-lawmakers-cross-to-apc-following-govs-defection\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:20:37","slug":"zamfara-assembly-leadership-12-pdp-lawmakers-cross-to-apc-following-govs-defection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/zamfara-assembly-leadership-12-pdp-lawmakers-cross-to-apc-following-govs-defection\/","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara Assembly leadership, 12 PDP lawmakers cross to APC following Gov\u2019s defection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major political shift has occurred in Zamfara State as the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bilyaminu Moriki, along with 12 lawmakers, formally announced their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The announcement was made during plenary in Gusau on Monday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/zamfara-assembly-leadership-12-pdp-lawmakers-cross-to-apc-following-govs-defection\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Timothy Enietan-Matthews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major political shift has occurred in Zamfara State as the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bilyaminu Moriki, along with 12 lawmakers, formally announced their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The announcement was made during plenary in Gusau on Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43612,192,92970],"tags":[43610,92969],"class_list":{"0":"post-902290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-assembly","8":"category-sports","9":"category-zamfara","10":"tag-assembly","11":"tag-zamfara"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902290","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=902290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}