{"id":227660,"date":"2026-03-21T01:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ex-rep-member-dumps-pdp-for-adc-in-cross-river\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:35:58","slug":"nigeria-ex-rep-member-dumps-pdp-for-adc-in-cross-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ex-rep-member-dumps-pdp-for-adc-in-cross-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ex-Rep Member Dumps PDP for ADC in Cross River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The News Agency of Nigeria reports that multiple defections to the ADC are gradually reshaping Cross River&#8217;s political landscape ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Eta Mbora, a former member of the House of Representatives, on Thursday in Calabar, joined the growing list of former federal lawmakers in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adc.org.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Democratic Congress<\/a><\/strong> (ADC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mr Mbora, who represented Calabar Municipality\/Odukpani Federal Constituency in the 9th National Assembly, cited the crisis within the Peoples Democratic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200451.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>The News Agency of Nigeria reports that multiple defections to the ADC are gradually reshaping Cross River&#8217;s political landscape ahead of the 2027 general elections. Eta Mbora, a former member of the House of Representatives, on Thursday in Calabar, joined the growing list of former federal lawmakers in the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Mr Mbora, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227661,"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":[22947,258,256,8816,16700,36652,6483,257,4687,393,905,7263,254],"class_list":["post-227660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cross","tag-dumps","tag-exrep","tag-member","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pdp","tag-river","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\/227660","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=227660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}