{"id":238789,"date":"2026-01-05T05:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/rivers-deputy-governor-follows-fubara-dumps-pdp-for-apc\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:16:40","slug":"rivers-deputy-governor-follows-fubara-dumps-pdp-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/rivers-deputy-governor-follows-fubara-dumps-pdp-for-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Deputy Governor Follows Fubara, Dumps PDP For APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Ngozi Odu, has formally registered as a member of the <strong>All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> understands that Odu completed her registration at her ward in Akabuka town, Ward 8, Unit 11, Ogba\/Egbema\/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after registering, the deputy governor broke into the song \u201c<em>On Your Mandate We Shall Stand<\/em>,\u201d a tune closely associated with President <strong>Bola Ahmed Tinubu<\/strong>, drawing attention from party supporters present at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Her defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) comes weeks after Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara also joined the APC following a meeting with President <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Fubara was subsequently registered as a member of the ruling party by Tony Okocha, the APC chairman in Rivers State, who said the action was carried out on the directive of the party\u2019s national secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the APC, Nentawe Yilwatda, recently declared Governor Fubara as the leader of the party in Rivers State, amid ongoing political realignments in the oil-rich state.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Governor of Rivers State, Ngozi Odu, has formally registered as a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Abia Radio News understands that Odu completed her registration at her ward in Akabuka town, Ward 8, Unit 11, Ogba\/Egbema\/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state. Shortly after registering, the deputy governor broke into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[287,584,2563,251,606,1864],"class_list":["post-238789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-headlines","tag-ngozi-odu","tag-pdp","tag-rivers-state","tag-siminalayi-fubara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5727a239-27f8-4210-9557-5d20628c7e3f.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238789","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=238789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}