{"id":172002,"date":"2025-07-31T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:09:51","slug":"pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana","title":{"rendered":"PDP crisis started, ended in Abuja \u2013 Jerry Gana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said that the crisis that has rocked the party since 2022, began and ended in Abuja, and did not spread to the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>Gana said that many people appear to have forgotten that the PDP Is a grassroots organisation which successfully terminated military rule and dominated Nigerian politics.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to remind doubters of how the party was formed in 1998, and that at the elections in 1999, it was in every polling unit, won most of the local governments, won the presidency, and was in total control.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Arise News, Gana said, \u201cI must confess that many people have forgotten that the PDP was created as a grassroots organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1998, we were formed and then moving to the elections in 1999 we were in every polling unit, because we are the ones who really won the first election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people have forgotten the PDP won most of the local governments, when it came to the presidential elections, we won the presidency, we won the Senate, we won the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were totally in control, and that is why we were very delighted that we restored democracy to Nigeria and re-established civil rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause for a number of years there was military rule but we successfully terminated that in a very democratic way, so the PDP was really as it were, a grassroots party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why when we said \u2018power to the people\u2019, we meant it because that was what it was, and it has been like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when this recent problem happened, it was really among a few elites here in Abuja. It didn\u2019t even go beyond.\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 founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said that the crisis that has rocked the party since 2022, began and ended in Abuja, and did not spread to the grassroots. Gana said that many people appear to have forgotten that the PDP Is a grassroots organisation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":172000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[347,3793,254,65],"class_list":["post-172002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abuja","tag-jerry-gana","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 crisis started, ended in Abuja \u2013 Jerry Gana - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said that the crisis that has rocked the p ...\" \/>\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-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP crisis started, ended in Abuja \u2013 Jerry Gana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said that the crisis that has rocked the p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T16:38:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-31T18:09:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753972305.867566.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"613\" \/>\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-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP crisis started, ended in Abuja \u2013 Jerry Gana\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-31T16:38:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-31T18:09:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana\"},\"wordCount\":305,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753972305.867566.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abuja\",\"jerry gana\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-crisis-started-ended-in-abuja-jerry-gana\",\"name\":\"PDP crisis started, ended in Abuja \u2013 Jerry Gana - 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