{"id":197383,"date":"2025-05-04T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-im-closer-to-abuja-than-defectors-alex-otti-laughs-off-defection-rumour\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T04:27:09","slug":"nigeria-im-closer-to-abuja-than-defectors-alex-otti-laughs-off-defection-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-im-closer-to-abuja-than-defectors-alex-otti-laughs-off-defection-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: I&#8217;m Closer to Abuja Than Defectors &#8211; Alex Otti Laughs Off Defection Rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has dismissed the speculation that he&#8217;s planning to dump the Labour Party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Governor Otti&#8217;s rumored defection plan swirled recently following the &#8216;tsunami defection&#8217; that took over the Peoples Democratic Party&#8217;s age-long structure in Delta State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">During their official reception ceremony, former Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, said he and his successor, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, joined the APC to connect Delta&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has dismissed the speculation that he&#8217;s planning to dump the Labour Party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Governor Otti&#8217;s rumored defection plan swirled recently following the &#8216;tsunami defection&#8217; that took over the Peoples Democratic Party&#8217;s age-long structure in Delta State. During their official reception ceremony, former Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,258,256,12887,11363,25493,24084,14723,257,4687,393,45474,11642,254],"class_list":["post-197383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alex","tag-closer","tag-defection","tag-defectors","tag-laughs","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-otti","tag-rumour","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}