{"id":170908,"date":"2025-07-23T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:54:38","slug":"pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition","title":{"rendered":"PDP Built to Govern Not to Play Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has suggested that the Peoples Democratic Party was built to govern and not to play an opposition role.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi said everything began to spiral downward for the PDP after it found itself in a strange place in 2015 as an opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this on Wednesday while fielding questions on Channels Television\u2019s Breakfast Show.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi said Nigerians have everything to thank the ADC for coming on the scene, claiming that the country was headed toward a one-party state before the party came to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cPDP was not built to play opposition party\u2014PDP was built to govern. So it found itself in a strange place in 2015 as an opposition party, and then everything began to spill downward from there. Then came this administration, and PDP remains like the potential challenger for power again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I don\u2019t know if it was a deliberate policy of this government or it\u2019s something that some people just decided to undertake by themselves, to undermine or take advantage of the internal contradictions in the opposition party and to make sure they are no more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the situation we are in today, I am not saying this because I\u2019m in ADC, Nigerians have to thank ADC for coming on the scene. Why? We are inexorably heading to a one-party state.\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. The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has suggested that the Peoples Democratic Party was built to govern and not to play an opposition role. Abdullahi said everything began to spiral downward for the PDP after it found itself in a strange place in 2015 as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[7262,118,254,65],"class_list":["post-170908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abdullahi","tag-adc","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>PDP Built to Govern Not to Play Opposition - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has suggested that the Peopl ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP Built to Govern Not to Play Opposition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, has suggested that the Peopl ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-23T15:39:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-23T16:54:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753277187.651495.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\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\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP Built to Govern Not to Play Opposition\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-23T15:39:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-23T16:54:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition\"},\"wordCount\":253,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753277187.651495.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"abdullahi\",\"ADC\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-built-to-govern-not-to-play-opposition\",\"name\":\"PDP Built to Govern Not to Play Opposition - 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