{"id":171287,"date":"2025-07-25T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-pdp-not-iroko-tree-but-cucumber-adamu-garba"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:30:40","slug":"2027-pdp-not-iroko-tree-but-cucumber-adamu-garba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-pdp-not-iroko-tree-but-cucumber-adamu-garba","title":{"rendered":"2027: PDP not Iroko tree but cucumber \u2013 Adamu Garba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba, on Friday said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is no longer an Iroko tree but a cucumber.<\/p>\n<p>Garba said PDP is in a self-destruct mode, adding that the party cannot achieve anything in the 2027 election.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed this during an interview on AIT\u2019s programme, Focus Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to Garba: \u201cThe way to know if a party or a society is growing is just to look at the allegory of a tree. You have roots, you grow and make fruits, you drop seeds, and then they start growing again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what we are having now is that they are moving back to the roots again after all the branches have dried up and the leaves have dropped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Iroko tree has the lifespan of 100 years but then PDP is not an Iroko tree, I think it\u2019s a cucumber because it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the best of my knowledge, PDP has lost the confidence of the public so I don\u2019t want to categorise them as anything at all in the coming 2027 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party\u2019s self-destruction is caused by PDP members. You saw the issue that they have between the FCT Minister and former Vice President who was there, the internal issues during their last convention, there is a lot of confusion within the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey really caused their self-destruction and that is why they are now organising themselves in a nostalgic mode to replay the game of 1998, 1999 and see the possibility of if they will ever survive.\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. A former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba, on Friday said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is no longer an Iroko tree but a cucumber. Garba said PDP is in a self-destruct mode, adding that the party cannot achieve anything in the 2027 election. 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