{"id":28842,"date":"2020-08-17T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28842"},"modified":"2020-08-17T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:40:15","slug":"pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc","title":{"rendered":"PDP crumbling under Secondus \u2013 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress has said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party is fast crumbling under the watch of its current National Chairman, Uche Secondus.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement titled, \u2018APC to Secondus: Opposition PDP Crumbling Under Your Watch, Credible Elections The New Normal Under Buhari,\u2019 signed the Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nabena was reacting to a recent comment by the PDP National Chairman who took issue with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and the APC over Buhari\u2019s comments that his regime could have used security agencies to overrun states won by the PDP in the 2019 elections but chose to support a democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>The APC spokesperson urged Secondus to focus on his party \u201cwhich has become shockingly rudderless under his watch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The APC statement read, \u201cUnder Secondus, the PDP has never had it this bad with the opposition party\u2019s stakeholders detached from the party activities as was witnessed with notable PDP leaders boycotting the Party\u2019s 2019 presidential campaigns and the recent Bayelsa State Governorship bribe-for-ticket scandal that indicted Secondus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle wonder, the recent months have witnessed many PDP members resign their membership due to Secondus activities which have brought the PDP to its knees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PDP under Secondus is in willful denial of the obvious that under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, free, fair and credible elections is the new normal. Voting power is fast returning to the people and the era of stolen and procured votes is fast-fading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nabena wondered, \u201cWhy will the PDP under Secondus not support efforts to ensure the independence of our state institutions such as the judiciary, INEC, and our security services and ultimately deepen our democracy and improve our electioneering system?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The All Progressives Congress has said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party is fast crumbling under the watch of its current National Chairman, Uche Secondus. This was contained in a statement titled, \u2018APC to Secondus: Opposition PDP Crumbling Under Your Watch, Credible Elections The New Normal Under Buhari,\u2019 signed the Deputy National Publicity Secretary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,65,1190],"class_list":["post-28842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-pdp","tag-uche-secondus"],"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 crumbling under Secondus \u2013 APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The All Progressives Congress has said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party is fast crumbling under the watch of its current\" \/>\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-crumbling-under-secondus-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP crumbling under Secondus \u2013 APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The All Progressives Congress has said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party is fast crumbling under the watch of its current\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-17T16:40:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Secondus-PDP.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\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=\"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\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"PDP crumbling under Secondus \u2013 APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-17T16:40:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Secondus-PDP.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"PDP\",\"Uche Secondus\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-crumbling-under-secondus-apc\",\"name\":\"PDP crumbling under Secondus \u2013 APC - 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