{"id":164651,"date":"2025-05-28T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:07:55","slug":"weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve resurrected PDP \u2013 Bode George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, says the party has been resurrected contrary to speculations that it was dead.<\/p>\n<p>George made this statement in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, immediately after the party held its crucial National Executive Committee, NEC, to resolve the crisis rocking the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already done the resurrection today. An iroko tree doesn\u2019t die, this party is an iroko tree because the tap root is so deep,\u201d George said.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that some politicians are being selfish, arguing that they have derailed from the dreams of the party\u2019s founding fathers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learnt a lesson and that lesson was the beginning of the meeting yesterday and today. What it reminded me was the peak of our existence as a political party. I left the chambers feeling reinvigorated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP NEC meeting was the realisation of the failures and things that we have done. This party is not a party for one individual, no individual can claim ownership of this party,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The elder statesman said further that the party\u2019s Board of Trustees, BoT, Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, called on PDP members to desist from selfishness and rather be selfless.<\/p>\n<p>The octogenarian vehemently said no when asked if he would dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, faulting the policies of President Bola Tinubu and decried the hardship in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the APC did not win the 2023 presidential election, arguing that the electoral process was not in good shape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, says the party has been resurrected contrary to speculations that it was dead. George made this statement in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, immediately after the party held its crucial National Executive Committee, NEC, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1194,254,65],"class_list":["post-164651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-bode-george","tag-nigeria","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>We\u2019ve resurrected PDP \u2013 Bode George - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, says the party has been resurrected ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We\u2019ve resurrected PDP \u2013 Bode George\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, says the party has been resurrected ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-28T08:03:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-28T09:07:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748410728.523545.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"We\u2019ve resurrected PDP \u2013 Bode George\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-28T08:03:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-28T09:07:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george\"},\"wordCount\":282,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748410728.523545.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bode George\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/weve-resurrected-pdp-bode-george\",\"name\":\"We\u2019ve resurrected PDP \u2013 Bode George - 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