{"id":111870,"date":"2024-02-29T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T09:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi"},"modified":"2024-02-29T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:29:28","slug":"economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi","title":{"rendered":"Economic hardship: PDP, LP, NNPP, others failing \u2013 Pat Utomi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Renowned political economist Professor Pat Utomi has said opposition political parties in Nigeria are failing, slamming them for failing to lead protests amid worsening economic hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Utomi, in a post on his X handle on Thursday, said labour unions are now the ones leading protests because political parties are failing.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, opposition parties lead protests in other climes, saying it is why the building of real parties is imperative.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe protests have come and gone. Power says they are political. What did they expect them to be, apolitical. Labour Unions are acting because political parties are failing. Elsewhere opposition parties lead the protests.This is why the building of real parties is imperative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and other related unions protested the high cost of living, inflation, insecurity, and hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC and the Trade Union Congress had issued a 14-day nationwide strike notice to the government over the failure to implement the agreements reached following the removal of the fuel subsidy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Renowned political economist Professor Pat Utomi has said opposition political parties in Nigeria are failing, slamming them for failing to lead protests amid worsening economic hardship in the country. Utomi, in a post on his X handle on Thursday, said labour unions are now the ones leading protests because political parties are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":111869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[1570,2140,2801,5506,254,2540,8736,65],"class_list":["post-111870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-economic-hardship","tag-lp","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpp","tag-pat-utomi","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Economic hardship: PDP, LP, NNPP, others failing \u2013 Pat Utomi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Renowned political economist Professor Pat Utomi has said opposition political parties in Nigeria are failing, slamming ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Economic hardship: PDP, LP, NNPP, others failing \u2013 Pat Utomi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Renowned political economist Professor Pat Utomi has said opposition political parties in Nigeria are failing, slamming ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-29T09:40:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-29T12:29:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/sm_1709193225.109861.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Economic hardship: PDP, LP, NNPP, others failing \u2013 Pat Utomi\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-29T09:40:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-29T12:29:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi\"},\"wordCount\":195,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/sm_1709193225.109861.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"economic hardship\",\"LP\",\"Nigeria\",\"NNPP\",\"Pat Utomi\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/economic-hardship-pdp-lp-nnpp-others-failing-pat-utomi\",\"name\":\"Economic hardship: PDP, LP, NNPP, others failing \u2013 Pat Utomi - 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