{"id":176169,"date":"2025-08-26T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:40:31","slug":"pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned","title":{"rendered":"PDP zoning: Be cautious of ADC \u2013 Peter Obi warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Professor of Political Science at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Jideofor Adibe, has urged the Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, to cautious of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, opposition coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Adibe made this call as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, zoned its 2027 presidential ticket to the southern region of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He gave the advice on Tuesday, while responding to questions in an interview on \u2018The Morning Brief\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to advise Peter Obi; he has his own advisors. At the end, he has to make his own decisions, but if I were him, I would be extremely suspicious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have already zoned their 2027 presidential tickets to southerners, with the ADC yet to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ADC coalition member and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from northern Nigeria, has shown interest in running for president in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The professor described Obi as someone who does not think on the surface, but always has a second plan to his decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s up to him to know what his own political strategists are telling him and what these moves are, but I believe that once any announcement is made, they create scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I believe that in the next couple of months, it will become clearer what informed the PDP\u2019s decision to say that they are zoning this issue,\u201d he 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. A Professor of Political Science at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Jideofor Adibe, has urged the Labour Party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, to cautious of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, opposition coalition. Adibe made this call as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, zoned its 2027 presidential ticket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":176168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,254,18554,222],"class_list":["post-176169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp-zoning","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 zoning: Be cautious of ADC \u2013 Peter Obi warned - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Professor of Political Science at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Jideofor Adibe, has urged the Labour Party\u2019s 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-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP zoning: Be cautious of ADC \u2013 Peter Obi warned\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Professor of Political Science at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Jideofor Adibe, has urged the Labour Party\u2019s p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T11:28:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-26T12:40:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756199557.125989.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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP zoning: Be cautious of ADC \u2013 Peter Obi warned\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-26T11:28:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-26T12:40:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756199557.125989.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP zoning\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-zoning-be-cautious-of-adc-peter-obi-warned\",\"name\":\"PDP zoning: Be cautious of ADC \u2013 Peter Obi warned - 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