{"id":32518,"date":"2020-11-17T19:33:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32518"},"modified":"2020-11-17T19:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:33:38","slug":"2023-pdp-leaders-members-to-join-us-soon-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-pdp-leaders-members-to-join-us-soon-apc","title":{"rendered":"2023: PDP leaders, members to join us soon \u2013 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">\u0627\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0631\u0633<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The All Progressives Congress (APC) says several leaders and members of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) are on the verge of joining the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the PDP is running from pillar to post to stop \u201cthe current gale of defections\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nabena mocked the opposition for \u201challucinating on a political \u2018third force\u2019 ahead of the 2023 general elections\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman quoted PDP\u2019s Kola Ologbodiyan as saying some people planning a new bloc \u201care coming to break the party by taking members of the PDP to create a new political party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that while the panic is understandable, it was wrongly expressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us in the APC, our membership is intact. There is no new political party being created to form a political \u2018third force\u2019 ahead of 2023. Put correctly, the gale of defection from the PDP is to the APC as widely reported. And a lot more is expected in the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nabena said the PDP is beginning to realise that it has failed as an opposition party, \u201cas shown by its rudderless leadership\u201d and the resultant decamping.<\/p>\n<p>The official urged all progressives in the PDP to dump the \u201csinking ship\u201d and join the APC to rebuild Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0627\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0631\u0633 &#8211; Nigeria. The All Progressives Congress (APC) says several leaders and members of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) are on the verge of joining the platform. Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He said the PDP is running from pillar to post to stop \u201cthe current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1571,1570,34,254,65],"class_list":["post-32518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-1571","tag-africa-press","tag-apc","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>2023: PDP leaders, members to join us soon \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\/parties\/2023-pdp-leaders-members-to-join-us-soon-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: PDP leaders, members to join us soon \u2013 APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u0627\u0641\u0631\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0631\u0633 &#8211; Nigeria. 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