{"id":19040,"date":"2019-12-18T19:08:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19040"},"modified":"2019-12-18T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:08:40","slug":"raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Dokpesi speaks on dumping PDP for APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, says he has no immediate plan to defect to the ruling<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_Progressives_Congress\"> All Progressives Congress<\/a> (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dokpesi, who is also the proprietor of the African Independent Television, AIT, disclosed this while addressing party faithful in Agenebode, Estako East Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo State on Tuesday, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>He said those who left the party alongside Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a former stalwart of the party did so for selfish reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dokpesi stated that there was nothing that would attract him to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a number of defection from the party. People who were said to have gone with Ize-Iyamu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn reality, only those people who were after their personal interests have defected to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajority of the people are still in PDP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dokpesi added: \u201cIt is most unfortunate to say that I have left for APC. I came down to reassure the people that there was no iota of truth in the story that I left the PDP. I am fully in the PDP. There is nothing that will attract me to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that membership of a party is based on what people want but on certain well principles and views about how a society should be governed, or managed and how to bring about development and progress to the people generally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not seen those values in the APC. I have no cause to go to APC for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIze-Iyamu was the PDP candidate in 2016. There are other younger, brilliant people in the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders of the PDP will look for the best candidate who will serve the interest of the people. Ize-Iyamu\u2019s departure will not affect the fortunes of PDP in future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, says he has no immediate plan to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Dokpesi, who is also the proprietor of the African Independent Television, AIT, disclosed this while addressing party faithful in Agenebode, Estako East Local Government Area (LGA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,65],"class_list":["post-19040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","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>Raymond Dokpesi speaks on dumping PDP for APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, says he has no immediate plan to defect to the ruling All Progressives\" \/>\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\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raymond Dokpesi speaks on dumping PDP for APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, says he has no immediate plan to defect to the ruling All Progressives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-18T19:08:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/APC-logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1798\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Raymond Dokpesi speaks on dumping PDP for APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-18T19:08:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\"},\"wordCount\":314,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/APC-logo.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/raymond-dokpesi-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\",\"name\":\"Raymond Dokpesi speaks on dumping PDP for APC - 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