{"id":26890,"date":"2020-07-03T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26890"},"modified":"2020-07-03T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T18:42:55","slug":"pdp-intimidated-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-intimidated-apc","title":{"rendered":"PDP intimidated \u2013 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday stated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was jittery ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>The party accused the PDP of deploying \u201ctheir usual, diversionary, baseless and theatrical allegations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Friday by Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, said \u201cPDP is intimidated by the quality, depth and political sagacity of the APC National Campaign Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He boasted that the APC had a formidable campaign structure to ensure Osagie Ize-Iyamu wins the poll.<\/p>\n<p>The party noted that it has no interest in rolling in the mud with the PDP or engaging them \u201cin their senseless and drunken tirade.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>He said Edo state is not dubbed the Heartbeat of the Nation for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Nabena told the PDP that Edo electorate was sensible, sophisticated and progressive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe focus of the APC is to display to the Edo electorate our pro-people credentials, infrastructure\/development track record, social investments, wealth creation initiatives, among others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAPC is a party that fiercely advocates, practices and defends the principle of \u201cOne person, one vote\u201d. Come September 19 every valid vote must count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman urged the PDP to concentrate on its \u201cdeadbeat and empty campaign instead of the comic it has turned itself to.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-14\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday stated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was jittery ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State. The party accused the PDP of deploying \u201ctheir usual, diversionary, baseless and theatrical allegations\u201d. A statement on Friday by Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, said \u201cPDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":26891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,65],"class_list":["post-26890","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>PDP intimidated \u2013 APC - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/pdp-intimidated-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP intimidated \u2013 APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria: The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday stated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was jittery ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State. 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