{"id":176149,"date":"2025-08-26T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:38:46","slug":"wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia","title":{"rendered":"Wike Aiding APC Cannot Represent PDP Says Onyia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, Ejiofor Onyia, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, of working for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Onyia stated that Wike doesn\u2019t hold any executive position in the PDP, insisting he does not have the power to decide for the party.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chieftain stated this while fielding questions on Arise Television\u2019s Prime Time on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The remark comes shortly after the National Executive Council of the PDP zoned the presidential slot to the southern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The party also ratified the appointment of Umar Damagum as the National Chairman of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on whether the decision was favourable to the FCT Minister, Onyia said Wike\u2019s position on the party\u2019s decision does not stop the party from doing what the Constitution has provided for it.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cYou see, let me make it clear, we have a party, and we have executive of the party. We have the Constitution that guides the activities of the party. Now, as of today, the FCT Minister is working for an opposition party as of today, right? Okay, he\u2019s not holding any executive position in the party, and he does not have the power to decide what the party does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he can take any decision, react anywhere he likes, as an individual. But that does not stop the party from doing what the Constitution has provided for the party to do.\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 member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, Ejiofor Onyia, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, of working for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Onyia stated that Wike doesn\u2019t hold any executive position in the PDP, insisting he does not have the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":176147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,254,18552,65],"class_list":["post-176149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-onyia","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>Wike Aiding APC Cannot Represent PDP Says Onyia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, Ejiofor Onyia, has accused the Minister of the Federal ...\" \/>\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\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wike Aiding APC Cannot Represent PDP Says Onyia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, Ejiofor Onyia, has accused the Minister of the Federal ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T11:26:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T12:38:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756199467.051706.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"853\" \/>\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\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Wike Aiding APC Cannot Represent PDP Says Onyia\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-26T11:26:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-26T12:38:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia\"},\"wordCount\":272,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756199467.051706.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Onyia\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/wike-aiding-apc-cannot-represent-pdp-says-onyia\",\"name\":\"Wike Aiding APC Cannot Represent PDP Says Onyia - 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