Defection

Again, with the present political situation in Nigeria with defection and impeachment fully in season, anything can happen and Imo is one of the states that “defection and impeachment” is not a new thing to the people and their politicians.

Asked if the defection of the Chairman, PDP Lagos State, Moshood Salvador, to the All Progressives Congress would affect PDP performance in the state, Mr Agbaje said his defection had no impact on the party.

Political defection London was the first Olympics to have a political defection.

Defectors/Defection: People who either switch their vote to a different party’s candidate from one election to the next, or those who in a given election do not support the candidate of the party they usually support.

His defection to the LIV series, and all the incendiary comments he made in the process, had torched his reputation as he backed away from the PGA Tour with all the grace of a man reversing a forklift truck into a pallet of Ming vases.

However, the three groups were blindsided amid those negotiations on the morning after the elections by Smith’s defection.

Kristin Corrado (R-Totowa) and Declan O’Scanlon (R-Little Silver), declined to go on the record at all – an indication of how sensitive the topic of Thompson’s defection remains for now.

LIV Golf rumors: Brooks Koepka regretting defection from PGA Tour.

Party sources said Ms Regan’s defection could set off a “domino effect”, with other elected politicians and activists crossing to Alba.

Recall that the All Progressives Congress candidate for the election, Collins Owhondah had withdrawn from the race, less than 24 hours before the election and announced his defection to the PDP.

So it's possible the other side did cooperate but we mistakenly see it as a defection.

Star receiver ’s late defection to came as a surprise and a huge blow, but Jeff Traylor’s team is 2-3 with losses to and a 31-point loss at Tennessee where the Roadrunners were barely competitive.

The defection of former leadership challenger ’s Alba Party piles misery on top of misery for First Minister Humza Yousaf.

The episode involving the defection from the ruling party of several lawmakers, still widely known in Greece as the "apostasy," destabilized the constitutional order and led to a military coup in 1967.

The first thing the courts would have to do is to decide whether there was, indeed, a division in the party as to warrant the defection of the law makers as at the time they did.

The government, however, collapsed after 15 months due to defection by Congress MLAs.

The national coordinator of the National Mass Movement for Better Orientation, Dr Hawa Iyatu-Bagu, a key support group, said the mass defection shows that the APC would be victorious in the February 25 elections.

The Tenth Schedule was inserted into the Constitution in 1985 as an anti-defection measure.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC), which became the main opposition party in Meghalaya in 2021 following the defection of 12 Congress MLAs, became a formidable force, especially after former chief minister Mukul Sangma joined its ranks.

This high-level staff defection should officially dash Mace’s masochistic fantasies of becoming Trump’s next vice president.