{"id":177642,"date":"2025-09-04T14:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:36:51","slug":"no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention","title":{"rendered":"No Court Order Against Holding PDP Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Debo Ologunagba, has defended the party\u2019s national convention.<\/p>\n<p>This was as he stated that the process followed the constitution and guidelines of the PDP despite protests from the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ologunagba stated this on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re guided by our rules, and we\u2019re guided by law. More importantly, we\u2019re guided by the guidelines of the party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s spokesman further noted that the party\u2019s organs had already made their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in on claims that the process excluded stakeholders, Ologunagba explained that everybody has a right to have the notice to that meeting, including those who claim to be NEC.<\/p>\n<p>Ologunagba, therefore, rejected suggestions that Wike\u2019s demands could derail the convention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, that would be completely untrue. I don\u2019t like to use the word lies, or dancing to the gallery,\u201d he added.<\/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 National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Debo Ologunagba, has defended the party\u2019s national convention. This was as he stated that the process followed the constitution and guidelines of the PDP despite protests from the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and his supporters. Ologunagba stated this on Wednesday while responding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[254,65],"class_list":["post-177642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>No Court Order Against Holding PDP Convention - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Debo Ologunagba, has defended the party\u2019s nationa ...\" \/>\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\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Court Order Against Holding PDP Convention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Debo Ologunagba, has defended the party\u2019s nationa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T13:34:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-04T14:36:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756984195.829255.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\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\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No Court Order Against Holding PDP Convention\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-04T13:34:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-04T14:36:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756984195.829255.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-court-order-against-holding-pdp-convention\",\"name\":\"No Court Order Against Holding PDP Convention - 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