{"id":21637,"date":"2024-03-12T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lp-threatens-to-declare-enugu-lawmakers-seats-vacant\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:02:34","slug":"lp-threatens-to-declare-enugu-lawmakers-seats-vacant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lp-threatens-to-declare-enugu-lawmakers-seats-vacant\/","title":{"rendered":"LP threatens to declare Enugu lawmakers\u2019 seats vacant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Labour Party, LP, has threatened to declare vacant seats of the Enugu State lawmakers who want to defect to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>The Enugu State LP Chairman, Casmir Agbo, issued the threat on Tuesday in a post on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the State government is under the control of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which won the March 18 gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered there are ongoing political manoeuvrings and plans by some members of the house to shift camp to the ruling PDP.<\/p>\n<p>However, Agbo is now saying that the party was aware of the antics of some LP members of HOA who want to decamp to PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d We are aware of the antics of some LP members of HOA who want to decamp to PDP. Their seats will be declared vacant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the PDP controls the leadership of the State legislature even though it produced fewer seats in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had in its released list after the 2023 general election said the party secured 14 seats out of the 24 seats.<\/p>\n<p>INEC\u2019s Head of Voter Education and Publicity in Enugu State, Rex Achumie, issued the list detailing the names, constituencies, parties and number of votes scored by the members-elect at the March 18 election.<\/p>\n<p>According to the commission, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has the remaining 10 seats.<\/p>\n<p>LP threatens to declare Enugu lawmakers\u2019 seats vacant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Party, LP, has threatened to declare vacant seats of the Enugu State lawmakers who want to defect to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1757,620,15,3],"tags":[137,625,180,624,249],"class_list":["post-21637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enugu","category-labour-party","category-news","category-politics","tag-enugu","tag-labour","tag-news","tag-party","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}