{"id":165866,"date":"2025-06-06T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:16:15","slug":"cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking","title":{"rendered":"Cross River: PDP warns members against cyber stalking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has threatened to deal with members who use their social media pages to insult party officials.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Venatius Ikem, issued the warning in a statement on Friday after a meeting with the party\u2019s LG chairmen in Calabar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe seriously frown at the high rate of cyberstalking by some members on party officials, characterized by opening of unauthorized social media platforms where abuses are wantonly committed. Offenders will be punished to serve as deterrent to others,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to sanitise the party in the state by identifying true party executives, the Cross River PDP leadership has authorized a verification exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Ikem said the verification exercise will pave the way for a stronger, more unified party by the 2027 election.<\/p>\n<p>He noted the continual enticement of PDP members to defect and commended the strong willed members for their resilience and refusal to be lured.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the enticement is a way to exploit the poverty the ruling party has institutionalized in the polity for political gains.<\/p>\n<p>Ikem urged the party\u2019s members to remain steadfast and loyal, emphasizing that PDP remains Nigeria\u2019s most viable option for a brighter future.<\/p>\n<p>He downplayed the defection of some party chieftains to the APC, saying such has no effect as the defectors are merely seeking immunity from their crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those that have defected lack ideologies, and cannot really point to any benefits they have gotten since their defections, he observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome defectors to the APC aren\u2019t reaping any tangible benefits but rather seek to bask in the ruling party\u2019s aura, while some unscrupulous officials are exploiting its membership as immunity from prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our assessment, these defections are largely driven by politicians who lack firm political ideologies and are highly motivated by venal interests,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that despite the defections from PDP to the APC in the state, many politicians have also defected back to the PDP alongside their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defection from one party to another is not only peculiar to Cross River State but across the states of the federation as some highly placed elected officials like governors are defecting due to lack of political ideology,\u201d the statement added.<\/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. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has threatened to deal with members who use their social media pages to insult party officials. Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Venatius Ikem, issued the warning in a statement on Friday after a meeting with the party\u2019s LG chairmen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":165865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[649,254,65],"class_list":["post-165866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-cross-river","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>Cross River: PDP warns members against cyber stalking - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has threatened to deal with members who use their social media p ...\" \/>\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\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cross River: PDP warns members against cyber stalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State has threatened to deal with members who use their social media p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-06T22:05:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-06T23:16:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749239226.429414.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"740\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Cross River: PDP warns members against cyber stalking\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-06T22:05:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-06T23:16:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking\"},\"wordCount\":405,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749239226.429414.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cross River\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/cross-river-pdp-warns-members-against-cyber-stalking\",\"name\":\"Cross River: PDP warns members against cyber stalking - 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