{"id":20789,"date":"2024-03-07T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/pdp-urges-members-not-to-despair-consults-for-repositioning-in-criver\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:03:00","slug":"pdp-urges-members-not-to-despair-consults-for-repositioning-in-criver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/pdp-urges-members-not-to-despair-consults-for-repositioning-in-criver\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP urges members not to despair, consults for repositioning in C\u2019River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the leading opposition party in Cross River State, Bar. Venatius Ikem, has advised members not to despair, urging them to keep hope alive.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, he urged them to continue to be patient, persevere and committed to the party.<\/p>\n<p>He said they will continue to interact with stakeholders with a view to repositioning the party as a viable opposition in the state, disagreeing that there was anything wrong in the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the situation and the low spirit in members after losing the 2023 election to All Progressives Congress (APC) amid high hopes. Let us not despair, but keep hope alive that we shall still conquer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we need in this nick of time is perseverance, commitment, patience, and accepting the truth that we are now in full opposition and deal with it by being resolute in repositioning the party ahead of local government and subsequent elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He charged them to be prepared for the upcoming local government council election, assuring that PDP would certainly bounce back in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that party leadership was consulting for an appropriate date to hold a caucus meeting of PDP after which other meetings will follow.<\/p>\n<p>PDP urges members not to despair, consults for repositioning in C\u2019River<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the leading opposition party in Cross River State, Bar. Venatius Ikem,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2812,15,490],"tags":[2821,180,150,2820],"class_list":["post-20789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cross-river","category-news","category-pdp","tag-cross","tag-news","tag-pdp","tag-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}