{"id":176157,"date":"2025-08-26T12:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:39:29","slug":"pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"PDP Will Punish Members Endorsing Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-South zone caretaker committee, Emmanuel Ogidi, has vowed that the party won\u2019t hesitate to discipline members found engaging in anti-party activities ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Ogidi, who spoke in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s breakfast programme The Morning Brief on Tuesday, dismissed claims that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, influenced the recent zoning of the PDP presidential ticket to the South.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, and other PDP members, who have openly endorsed President Bola Tinubu, Ogidi said, \u201cWe are watching our members and of course, any party that does not have discipline cannot succeed. We will discipline any erring members,\u201d he said on the show.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chieftain accused the APC of attempting to destabilise the South but insisted their efforts had failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAPC has been running towards the South because they want to destabilise the South; they are trying to weaken us in the South, but they failed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-lawmaker Dino Melaye, among others, recently left the PDP for the ADC opposition coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to questions about reconciliations and defections, Ogidi maintained that the PDP would continue to engage aggrieved members but would not tolerate deliberate acts of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in reconciliation. If it doesn\u2019t work, then we are going to apply the big stick. As for those who have left, our doors are always open. At the time they left, many were unsure of the party\u2019s direction, but now we are more certain and I believe they will return,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He further stressed that the PDP\u2019s immediate focus was not on personalities but on rebuilding public confidence after years of internal crisis, including leadership tussles and disputes over the office of the national secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the People\u2019s Democratic Party. We don\u2019t headhunt for candidates; our doors are open for those who wish to come in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, our pursuit is not about the candidate but about regaining the confidence of Nigerians. PDP is not owned by any individual; it belongs to the people,\u201d Ogidi said.<\/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. The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-South zone caretaker committee, Emmanuel Ogidi, has vowed that the party won\u2019t hesitate to discipline members found engaging in anti-party activities ahead of the 2027 elections. Ogidi, who spoke in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s breakfast programme The Morning Brief on Tuesday, dismissed claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":176156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[13554,254,65,945],"class_list":["post-176157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-13554","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-tinubu"],"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 Will Punish Members Endorsing Tinubu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-South zone caretaker committee, Emmanuel Ogidi, has vowed that ...\" \/>\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-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP Will Punish Members Endorsing Tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-South zone caretaker committee, Emmanuel Ogidi, has vowed that ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T11:27:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T12:39:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756199505.455115.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"775\" \/>\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-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP Will Punish Members Endorsing Tinubu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-26T11:27:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-26T12:39:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu\"},\"wordCount\":380,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756199505.455115.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2027\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-will-punish-members-endorsing-tinubu\",\"name\":\"PDP Will Punish Members Endorsing Tinubu - 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