{"id":240601,"date":"2026-01-29T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/plateau-senator-dumps-adp-joins-apc\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:39:08","slug":"plateau-senator-dumps-adp-joins-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/plateau-senator-dumps-adp-joins-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Plateau Senator Dumps ADP, Joins APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Senator Pam Mwadkon Dachungyang has formally defected from the Action Democratic Party (ADP) to the <strong>All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that his defection was confirmed in a letter read on the Senate floor on Thursday by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.<\/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>In the letter, Dachungyang cited irreconcilable differences within the ADP as the reason for his decision.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the APC offers a suitable platform for him to continue serving his constituents effectively.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Pam Mwadkon Dachungyang has formally defected from the Action Democratic Party (ADP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Abia Radio News reports that his defection was confirmed in a letter read on the Senate floor on Thursday by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio. Story continues below advertisement In the letter, Dachungyang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240602,"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":[3015,287,3016,711],"class_list":["post-240601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adp","tag-apc","tag-pam-mwadkon-dachungyang","tag-plateau-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG-20250322-WA0003.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240601","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=240601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}