{"id":16885,"date":"2019-10-18T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:34:37","slug":"pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon","title":{"rendered":"PDP dares APC candidate, Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign Council of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/People%27s_Democratic_Party_(Nigeria)\">Peoples Democratic Party<\/a> (PDP) in Bayelsa State on Thursday said its candidate in the November 16 election, Senator Douye Diri, is ready to face the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Chief David Lyon, in a debate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Yenagoa, the Director-General, Diri Campaign Organisation, Dr. Nimibofa Ayawei, said the PDP candidate was not afraid to engage the people of the state in any debate.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cAny debate that will have to do with the 2019 election, PDP will always be available because we want an issue-based campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the choice of the other camp to make their candidate available. I am not challenging anybody. For us, we want to always interact with Bayelsans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, an international foundation, Push Africa Foundation (PAF), has scheduled a debate for the major parties\u2019 candidates ahead of the governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>PAF\u2019s Country Director, Egberamen Doris, described the debate as an important landmark in the state\u2019s democratic journey, saying it would deepen democracy and the growing maturity of governance and politics in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Egberamen noted that the event, scheduled to hold on October 28, would be conducted independently and exclusively by key stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe have mobilised a Bayelsa State Elections Debate Group (BED-G). This group is a coalition of broadcast organisations, NGOs, civil societies and faith-based organisations as well as professional groups, who are committed to deepening democracy and entrenching an enduring democratic culture through organised public\/media debates. We are proposing that this should be a continued culture for the people of Bayelsa State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State on Thursday said its candidate in the November 16 election, Senator Douye Diri, is ready to face the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Chief David Lyon, in a debate. Speaking to journalists in Yenagoa, the Director-General, Diri Campaign Organisation, Dr. Nimibofa Ayawei, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,173,65],"class_list":["post-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-parties","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>PDP dares APC candidate, Lyon - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State on Thursday said its candidate in the November 16 election\" \/>\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\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP dares APC candidate, Lyon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State on Thursday said its candidate in the November 16 election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-18T16:34:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/David-Lyon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"PDP dares APC candidate, Lyon\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-18T16:34:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon\"},\"wordCount\":264,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/David-Lyon.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Parties\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-dares-apc-candidate-lyon\",\"name\":\"PDP dares APC candidate, Lyon - 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