{"id":1151550,"date":"2022-07-17T08:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/17\/apc-doesnt-want-to-lose-members-but-we-cant-force-anybody-to-stay\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T08:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T08:01:55","slug":"apc-doesnt-want-to-lose-members-but-we-cant-force-anybody-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/17\/apc-doesnt-want-to-lose-members-but-we-cant-force-anybody-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Doesn\u2019t Want To Lose Members \u2014 But We Can\u2019t Force Anybody To Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that his party does not want to lose any member but it cannot force anyone to stay.<\/p>\n

Speaking with journalists on Saturday after visiting Abdullahi Mohammed, governor of Nasarawa, at the government house in Lafia, Adamu said it is a \u201cseason for defection\u201d in the country\u2019s political space.<\/p>\n

The national chairman stated that politicians are adults who are capable of making their own decisions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t want to lose any member but if a member willfully wants to leave the party without recourse, we can\u2019t force anybody to stay or leave the party,\u201d the former governor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue of defection; there is a season for it in politics particularly in developing countries, and it is not news in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody who is a member of this party is an adult and when an adult takes a decision, it\u2019s either you convince him and if the decision is not favourable to you and he does his bidding, you leave him for God who decides everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abdullahi Adamu Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that his party does not want to lose any member but it cannot force anyone to stay. Speaking with journalists on Saturday after visiting Abdullahi Mohammed, governor of Nasarawa, at the government house in Lafia, Adamu said it is a \u201cseason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}