{"id":168016,"date":"2025-07-02T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:59:56","slug":"atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition","title":{"rendered":"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, ex-Senate President David Mark, and other party bigwigs, are reportedly on their way out of the party.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a communique\u0301 issued shortly after a meeting of Concerned Leaders of the PDP held in Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The top opposition figures had held a closed-door meeting to deliberate on the lingering crisis affecting the main opposition party and the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Former Governors Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), and Sam Egwu (Ebonyi), along with other senior figures, were also present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The concerned leaders lamented that the All Progressives Congress, APC, government, which \u201ccame into being on the false and evil propaganda, to save Nigeria from PDP is now a disaster to our nation and therefore must be voted out of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to them, \u201call indices of development that support the comfort and quality of lives of the citizens have collapsed, and life is now hell in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leaders expressed regret that PDP, \u201cwhich is organic with the discipline, capacity, and history to lead and save Nigeria, is now a shadow of its old self,\u201d stressing that \u201cthe heatwave unleashed by the APC Federal Government through threats, blackmail and patronage has forced elected officers in government to abandon the PDP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They called on all well-meaning PDP \u201cmembers and other patriotic Nigerians to join the coalition.\u201d<\/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. Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, ex-Senate President David Mark, and other party bigwigs, are reportedly on their way out of the party. This was disclosed in a communique\u0301 issued shortly after a meeting of Concerned Leaders of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,16,2660],"tags":[316,8952,254,65],"class_list":["post-168016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-to-homepage","tag-atiku","tag-david-mark","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>Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Go ...\" \/>\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\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Go ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-02T07:53:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-02T08:59:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\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=\"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\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-02T07:53:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-02T08:59:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition\"},\"wordCount\":268,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"David Mark\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition\",\"name\":\"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-02T07:53:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-02T08:59:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Go ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition - Nigeria","description":"Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Go ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition","og_description":"Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Go ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-07-02T07:53:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-02T08:59:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition","datePublished":"2025-07-02T07:53:15+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-02T08:59:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition"},"wordCount":268,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg","keywords":["Atiku","David Mark","Nigeria","PDP"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","Parties","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition","name":"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg","datePublished":"2025-07-02T07:53:15+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-02T08:59:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Key leaders in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Jigawa State Go ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751434279.447468.jpg","width":1080,"height":720,"caption":"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/atiku-david-mark-secondus-others-leave-pdp-for-coalition#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Atiku David Mark Secondus Others Leave PDP for Coalition"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}