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In a major political realignment that may reshape Sokoto’s political landscape, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State suffered a significant blow on Tuesday as top supporters led by Alhaji Chika Sarkin Gishiri, Chairman of the Sokoto State Traders Association, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n
The defection, which took place at the residence of Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, the state’s APC leader, was marked by a grand reception welcoming the defectors into the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> In a major political realignment that may reshape Sokoto’s political landscape, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State suffered a significant blow on Tuesday as top supporters led by Alhaji Chika Sarkin Gishiri, Chairman of the Sokoto State Traders Association, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The defection, which took place at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198975,"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":[258,256,11297,25493,7107,7274,4381,7883,257,4687,393,905,12816,8447,254,8583],"class_list":["post-198974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-defection","tag-join","tag-key","tag-leaders","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pdp","tag-rocks","tag-sokoto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traders"],"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\/198974","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=198974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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