{"id":232875,"date":"2026-05-10T15:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-mass-exodus-hits-oyo-pdp-as-makinde-plans-to-unveil-new-party\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:57:29","slug":"nigeria-mass-exodus-hits-oyo-pdp-as-makinde-plans-to-unveil-new-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-mass-exodus-hits-oyo-pdp-as-makinde-plans-to-unveil-new-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Mass Exodus Hits Oyo PDP As Makinde Plans to Unveil New Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>A wave of mass resignations has hit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State as Governor Seyi Makinde, is reportedly planning to defect to another political following the crisis in the PDP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Daily Trust reports that serving House of Representatives members and aspirants for various elective positions in the 2027 general elections and members of the PDP have been resigning their membership of the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Among politicians who have resigned are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605080388.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>A wave of mass resignations has hit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State as Governor Seyi Makinde, is reportedly planning to defect to another political following the crisis in the PDP. Daily Trust reports that serving House of Representatives members and aspirants for various elective positions in the 2027 general elections and members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232876,"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":[258,256,28194,7111,50239,7883,257,4687,393,10769,7024,905,5212,254,15437],"class_list":["post-232875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exodus","tag-hits","tag-makinde","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oyo","tag-party","tag-pdp","tag-plans","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unveil"],"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\/232875","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=232875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}