{"id":57947,"date":"2022-01-22T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=57947"},"modified":"2022-01-22T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:22:51","slug":"2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request","title":{"rendered":"2023: Obasanjo turns down PDP\u2019s request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying he has retired from partisan politics.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-president, who renounced his membership of the party in 2015, stated this when he received the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and other stakeholders who paid him a visit on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the visit was targeted at returning the former president to the opposition party ahead of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>But, Obasanjo, while addressing the stakeholders, said he had vowed to remain as a statesman. He, however, said PDP would always be part of his life.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI\u2019m no longer in partisan politics and there is nothing that can bring back. Anybody who wants my advice, I will always be there in the best interest of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever I do in my own life\u2026because I became president on the platform of PDP, PDP will continue to be part of my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the day I tore my PDP card, that was the day I ceased to be a member of PDP. That day I vowed not to be a member of any political party. I will continue to be a statesman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying he has retired from partisan politics. The ex-president, who renounced his membership of the party in 2015, stated this when he received the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and other stakeholders who paid him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,479,65],"class_list":["post-57947","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-nigeria","tag-obasanjo","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: Obasanjo turns down PDP\u2019s request - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying ...\" \/>\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-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: Obasanjo turns down PDP\u2019s request\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-22T16:58:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ec2f4335306.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"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\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023: Obasanjo turns down PDP\u2019s request\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-22T16:58:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ec2f4335306.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obasanjo\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-obasanjo-turns-down-pdps-request\",\"name\":\"2023: Obasanjo turns down PDP\u2019s request - 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