{"id":240430,"date":"2026-01-27T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/we-wont-filter-out-people-who-want-to-join-apc-felix-morka\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:04:10","slug":"we-wont-filter-out-people-who-want-to-join-apc-felix-morka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/we-wont-filter-out-people-who-want-to-join-apc-felix-morka\/","title":{"rendered":"We Won\u2019t Filter Out People Who Want To Join APC \u2013 Felix Morka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that governors defecting to the party are realigning themselves with a resurging Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an appearance on Arise Television, he stated that the recent wave of defections reflects confidence in the administration of President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"c-ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/18855965\/naijanews_body2 --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Morka noted that the party is ready to welcome new members and will not act as a barrier to politicians seeking to join.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201c<em>What you see is governors who have decided to join our party to identify with this resurging Nigeria that this President is clearly positioning Nigeria to be.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are happy, we are excited about people who join our party. We cannot be gatekeepers to filter out people who want to join our camp. We don\u2019t do that because it is undemocratic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"c-ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/18855965\/naijanews_body3 --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Addressing fears that the defections could lead to a one-party state, the APC spokesperson dismissed such concerns, arguing that Nigeria had experienced similar political dominance in the past without undermining democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Peoples Democratic Party at some point in our history governed Nigeria with about the same number of governors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I was very active in the political world at that time and there was no spectre anywhere about a one-party state because the PDP had those numbers of governors. That\u2019s not the case now, and I think we should not equate people joining our party with that mode,\u201d<\/em> Morka added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"c-ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/18855965\/naijanews_body4 --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that governors defecting to the party are realigning themselves with a resurging Nigeria. Speaking during an appearance on Arise Television, he stated that the recent wave of defections reflects confidence in the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Story continues below advertisement Morka noted that the party is ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240431,"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":[287,1878],"class_list":["post-240430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-felix-morka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769515451_Felix-Morka.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240430","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=240430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}