{"id":236437,"date":"2025-10-11T03:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/ex-benue-gov-suswam-breaks-silence-following-rumours-of-planned-defection-to-apc\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:32:06","slug":"ex-benue-gov-suswam-breaks-silence-following-rumours-of-planned-defection-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/ex-benue-gov-suswam-breaks-silence-following-rumours-of-planned-defection-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Benue Gov Suswam Breaks Silence Following Rumours of Planned Defection to APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Benue State Governor, Senator Gabriel Suswam, has denied rumours suggesting that he is planning to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by his media aide, Bede Bartholomew, on Friday, Suswam described the reports as \u201cfalse, mischievous, and misleading.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The clarification followed widespread claims that the ex-governor would announce his defection during a state dinner organised by Governor Hyacinth Alia at the Government House, Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p>Bartholomew explained that Suswam only accepted a formal invitation to the dinner as a stakeholder and former leader of the state, adding that there was no political motive behind his attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoments ago, I received telephone calls from well-meaning Benuelites and leaders, alerting me to trending news on Benue\u2019s social media space purporting that the former governor of Benue, Sen. Suswam, has defected to the APC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI debunk this unholy rumour with all vehemence, as it doesn\u2019t represent the current interests of Suswam or that of his supporters across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the dinner, scheduled for October 10, 2025, is intended to bring together key political figures and stakeholders in Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>Bartholomew added that Governor Alia\u2019s letter of invitation made no reference to any defection or political gathering, stressing that the event was simply a state banquet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Benue State Governor, Senator Gabriel Suswam, has denied rumours suggesting that he is planning to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a statement issued by his media aide, Bede Bartholomew, on Friday, Suswam described the reports as \u201cfalse, mischievous, and misleading.\u201d The clarification followed widespread claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/images-2025-10-10T175956.370.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}