{"id":179738,"date":"2025-09-22T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:57:38","slug":"pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs","title":{"rendered":"PDP disappointed Rivers people \u2013 Ann-Kio Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A human rights activist and member of the Rivers Elders Forum, Ann-Kio Briggs, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of betraying the trust of the people of Rivers State and Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on \u2018Sunday Politics\u2019, a programme on Channels Television, Briggs said the party\u2019s failure to act decisively left residents of the state to suffer the consequences of prolonged political crises.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the state\u2019s political developments, she decried that despite the loyalty of Rivers people to the PDP since 1999, the party failed to rise to the occasion when it mattered most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely feel, as a stakeholder and elder, let down by the PDP because, since 1999, we have always voted, including me, for the PDP,\u201d Briggs said.<\/p>\n<p>The human rights activist further stated that the PDP allowed internal divisions and power struggles to weaken its influence, adding that the party\u2019s negligence worsened the political situation in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the negligence forced the state to grapple with damage that could have been avoided had the PDP acted responsibly.<\/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 human rights activist and member of the Rivers Elders Forum, Ann-Kio Briggs, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of betraying the trust of the people of Rivers State and Nigerians. Featuring on \u2018Sunday Politics\u2019, a programme on Channels Television, Briggs said the party\u2019s failure to act decisively left residents of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[18775,254,65,421],"class_list":["post-179738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ann-kio-briggs","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-rivers"],"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 disappointed Rivers people \u2013 Ann-Kio Briggs - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A human rights activist and member of the Rivers Elders Forum, Ann-Kio Briggs, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, ...\" \/>\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-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP disappointed Rivers people \u2013 Ann-Kio Briggs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A human rights activist and member of the Rivers Elders Forum, Ann-Kio Briggs, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-22T07:20:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-22T08:57:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758518947.813025.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\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-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP disappointed Rivers people \u2013 Ann-Kio Briggs\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-22T07:20:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-22T08:57:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758518947.813025.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ann- Kio Briggs\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Rivers\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pdp-disappointed-rivers-people-ann-kio-briggs\",\"name\":\"PDP disappointed Rivers people \u2013 Ann-Kio Briggs - 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