{"id":171926,"date":"2025-07-31T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:57:34","slug":"pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket","title":{"rendered":"PDP Never Denied Peter Obi Presidential Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former National Legal Advisor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jacob Mark, has said the party never denied former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi its presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Mark said Obi left the PDP for the Labour Party, LP, before the 2022 presidential primaries.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as former PDP\u2019s acting National Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff claimed that Obi would likely return to the PDP any moment.<\/p>\n<p>Corroborating Sheriff\u2019s disclosure, a close ally of Obi, Katchy Ononuju, said the former LP presidential candidate would return to PDP because the party has agreed to zone its presidential ticket to the South.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mark expressed reservations over claims that the PDP is ready to hand its presidential ticket to Obi.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Arise Television on Thursday, Mark said: \u201cI\u2019m not sure anyone denied Peter Obi the ticket when he was interested in 2023, he left before the primary of the PDP to join LP so he was not denied. He had the right of choice and he elected to go to the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile so many people are of the opinion that he may come back to the PDP, I think the decision is entirely his and I\u2019m not sure that the PDP as a party has sat down to say that he should come back and take the ticket of the party. These are generally personal opinions that are built on cogent reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that Peter Obi following his showing in 2023 is a brand that any political party will like to hold, same way, there is no doubt that PDP has been a brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if two brands come together, it\u2019s easy to predict the result but I don\u2019t think that we have gotten there yet where the PDP has taken the decision that it must be Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a very fine brand that many people believe in him and are following him but if he comes to PDP he could be a good sell, so if there is a candidate anywhere who is sellable, it won\u2019t be wrong for any political party to woo the candidate to fly its ticket.\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 National Legal Advisor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jacob Mark, has said the party never denied former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi its presidential ticket. Mark said Obi left the PDP for the Labour Party, LP, before the 2022 presidential primaries. This comes as former PDP\u2019s acting National Chairman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[17976,254,65,222],"class_list":["post-171926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-jacob-mark","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-peter-obi"],"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 Never Denied Peter Obi Presidential Ticket - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A former National Legal Advisor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jacob Mark, has said the party never denied former ...\" \/>\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\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP Never Denied Peter Obi Presidential Ticket\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former National Legal Advisor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Jacob Mark, has said the party never denied former ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T16:16:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T17:57:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753971873.933223.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\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\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP Never Denied Peter Obi Presidential Ticket\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-31T16:16:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-31T17:57:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket\"},\"wordCount\":381,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753971873.933223.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Jacob Mark\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-never-denied-peter-obi-presidential-ticket\",\"name\":\"PDP Never Denied Peter Obi Presidential Ticket - 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