{"id":72367,"date":"2022-09-15T09:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:15:15","slug":"pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan","title":{"rendered":"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olusanya Awosan, has blamed Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party\u2019s presidential candidate for the lingering crisis in the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Awosan said the former Vice President had not shown leadership since after the party primaries and that he expected him to be magnanimous in victory.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed this while fielding questions on Thursday morning on the Channels TV Sunrise program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Vice President Atiku Abubakar has not looked back; he did not bother to look back. Once upon a time, this platform under which he was standing was the platform he brought bulldozers to pull down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there were no people to put the skeleton he left behind together, would there have been a platform for him to stand as a presidential candidate?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving secured the ticket, I expected him to be magnanimous in victory, but his disposition does not show any sign of leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the PDP Governors first took the wrong step by making Ayu the national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governors committed the first error when they went to the bed of Ayu to wake him up from that bed of political retirement to come and be the chairman. I was discussing with Doyin Okupe then, saying these people have taken the wrong step in their life,\u201d he added.<\/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 Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olusanya Awosan, has blamed Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party\u2019s presidential candidate for the lingering crisis in the PDP. Awosan said the former Vice President had not shown leadership since after the party primaries and that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":72366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,316,8629,1635,254,65,4806],"class_list":["post-72367","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-atiku","tag-awosan","tag-jonathan","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-pdp-crisis"],"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 crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olus ...\" \/>\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\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olus ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-15T08:49:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-15T10:15:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"733\" \/>\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\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-15T08:49:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-15T10:15:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan\"},\"wordCount\":254,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Atiku\",\"Awosan\",\"jonathan\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"PDP crisis\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan\",\"name\":\"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-15T08:49:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-15T10:15:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olus ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":733,\"caption\":\"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan - Nigeria","description":"Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olus ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan","og_description":"Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olus ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2022-09-15T08:49:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-15T10:15:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":733,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan","datePublished":"2022-09-15T08:49:27+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-15T10:15:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan"},"wordCount":254,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Atiku","Awosan","jonathan","Nigeria","PDP","PDP crisis"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Parties","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan","name":"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg","datePublished":"2022-09-15T08:49:27+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-15T10:15:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and pioneer member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olus ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_10-6322fb1d925f3.jpg","width":1200,"height":733,"caption":"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/pdp-crisis-atiku-pdp-governors-are-to-blame-jonathans-ex-aide-awosan#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"PDP crisis: Atiku, PDP governors are to blame \u2013 Jonathan\u2019s ex-aide, Awosan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}