{"id":47029,"date":"2021-07-19T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=47029"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:41:19","slug":"no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly","title":{"rendered":"No level playing ground in Imo PDP \u2013 Ex-senatorial aspirant, Ugo Sly"},"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>An ex-senatorial aspirant for Imo East Senatorial District, Ugochukwu Harry Nwachukwu, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as a habitat where the bigger fish eats the smaller fish.<\/p>\n<p>The politician, popularly known as Ugo Sly, said that \u201cit is only in Imo PDP that internal politics is played with serious interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ugo Sly spoke to journalists in Owerri, the state capital, during the defection ceremony of George White Iwuamadi from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) held at Uzoagba community in Ikeduru LGA.<\/p>\n<p>The Mbaitoli-born politician, who recently decamped to the ruling APC, further disclosed that his mandate was forcefully taken away from him in 2019 by the same bigger fishes in the state PDP.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-senatorial aspirant said that he won convincingly during the party primaries but was shortchanged by the \u2018big fishes\u2019 in his former party.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the PDP has lost two heavyweights within a space of three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout mincing words, APC is the party where you can see your brothers and friends who will speak for you. That is one of my decisions to identify with the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a whole lot of followers and they all joined with me. Now, tell me, how many people are remaining in the PDP, none?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, my brother and friend, George white, has also left them for APC, this is to show that the party does not ensure a level playing ground for its members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was shortchanged in PDP, I didn\u2019t go to court because I didn\u2019t want to be that politician. I just thought I needed to go to a place where I can see my brothers and friends. APC is filled with my brothers and I am happy here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>PDP, a bad loser \u2013 Ex-senatorial aspirant, Nwachukwu says after joining APC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An ex-senatorial aspirant for Imo East Senatorial District, Ugochukwu Harry Nwachukwu, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as a habitat where the bigger fish eats the smaller fish. The politician, popularly known as Ugo Sly, said that \u201cit is only in Imo PDP that internal politics is played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":47028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1018,254,65,4868],"class_list":["post-47029","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-imo","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-ugo-sly"],"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>No level playing ground in Imo PDP \u2013 Ex-senatorial aspirant, Ugo Sly - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An ex-senatorial aspirant for Imo East Senatorial District, Ugochukwu Harry Nwachukwu, has described the Peoples Democra ...\" \/>\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\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No level playing ground in Imo PDP \u2013 Ex-senatorial aspirant, Ugo Sly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An ex-senatorial aspirant for Imo East Senatorial District, Ugochukwu Harry Nwachukwu, has described the Peoples Democra ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-19T15:28:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60f58ef4a19d7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No level playing ground in Imo PDP \u2013 Ex-senatorial aspirant, Ugo Sly\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-19T15:28:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60f58ef4a19d7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Imo\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Ugo Sly\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/no-level-playing-ground-in-imo-pdp-ex-senatorial-aspirant-ugo-sly\",\"name\":\"No level playing ground in Imo PDP \u2013 Ex-senatorial aspirant, Ugo Sly - 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