{"id":171078,"date":"2025-07-24T13:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:12:47","slug":"igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia","title":{"rendered":"Igbokwe Reaffirms Loyalty to PDP in Abia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Mayor Lucky Igbokwe, a key political figure in Abia State and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reaffirmed his commitment to the party, dismissing recent speculation of a possible defection.<\/p>\n<p>Igbokwe revealed this after hosting the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, and the former Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Chinedum Orji, who recently joined the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am still in PDP. If there are other intentions, I will make it public, but as of now, I am still consulting,\u201d Igbokwe said<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that he would soon disclose the reasons behind his engagements with leaders of other political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings have fueled widespread speculation about Igbokwe\u2019s political intentions, with some viewing them as signs of a possible defection.<\/p>\n<p>However, his reaffirmation of loyalty to the PDP has, for now, laid those speculations to rest.<\/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. Mayor Lucky Igbokwe, a key political figure in Abia State and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reaffirmed his commitment to the party, dismissing recent speculation of a possible defection. Igbokwe revealed this after hosting the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, and the former Speaker of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1208,254,65],"class_list":["post-171078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-abia","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>Igbokwe Reaffirms Loyalty to PDP in Abia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mayor Lucky Igbokwe, a key political figure in Abia State and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reaffirme ...\" \/>\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\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Igbokwe Reaffirms Loyalty to PDP in Abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mayor Lucky Igbokwe, a key political figure in Abia State and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reaffirme ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-24T12:10:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-24T13:12:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753350276.990059.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"560\" \/>\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\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Igbokwe Reaffirms Loyalty to PDP in Abia\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-24T12:10:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-24T13:12:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia\"},\"wordCount\":167,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753350276.990059.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/igbokwe-reaffirms-loyalty-to-pdp-in-abia\",\"name\":\"Igbokwe Reaffirms Loyalty to PDP in Abia - 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