{"id":45118,"date":"2021-06-15T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/donald-duke-dumps-sdp-joins-pdp"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:51:17","slug":"donald-duke-dumps-sdp-joins-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/donald-duke-dumps-sdp-joins-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Donald Duke dumps SDP, joins PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former presidential candidate, Donald Duke has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Bukola Saraki, a former Senate president made this known on his facebook page as he welcomed the former governor into the opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Donald Duke in 2018 dumped PDP and ran for presidency in 2015 under the Social Democratic Party, SDP.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki while posting a picture receiving Donald Duke wrote: \u201cYesterday in Calabar, alongside the Chairman of our great party, Prince Uche Secondus, and other party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an absolute pleasure to receive my dear friend, former Governor Donald Duke, back into the Peoples Democratic Party!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former presidential candidate, Donald Duke has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Bukola Saraki, a former Senate president made this known on his facebook page as he welcomed the former governor into the opposition party. Recall that Donald Duke in 2018 dumped PDP and ran for presidency in 2015 under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":45117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,4380,254,65,1142],"class_list":["post-45118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-donald-duke","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-sdp"],"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>Donald Duke dumps SDP, joins PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former presidential candidate, Donald Duke has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. 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