{"id":24394,"date":"2024-03-28T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/leaders-high-handedness-caused-pdps-loss-in-abia-guber-election-party-chieftain-aguoru\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T19:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:02:35","slug":"leaders-high-handedness-caused-pdps-loss-in-abia-guber-election-party-chieftain-aguoru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/leaders-high-handedness-caused-pdps-loss-in-abia-guber-election-party-chieftain-aguoru\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders\u2019 high-handedness caused PDP\u2019s  loss in Abia guber election \u2013 Party chieftain Aguoru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Director of New Media of the defunct Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Campaign Council in Abia State, Chief Uche Aguoru, has attributed high-handedness and insincerity of few powerful members to the Party\u2019s loss in the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised a former minority leader of the senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe and accused him of setting the grounds for the implosion that happened to the party.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, Aguoru insisted that Abaribe led the rebellion and gave others the courage to move against the party.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the leadership of the party weren\u2019t smart to see the conspiracy and went ahead to deny tickets to popular candidates during the primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cThe PDP lost quality membership that could have guaranteed victory at the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party was fighting against itself as the state chairman wasn\u2019t in control of the internal party mechanism and the loss at the polling units became imminent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aguoru revealed that the party has activated its internal conflict resolution mechanism and is yielding desired results.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cMeetings are ongoing at very high levels, issues are being addressed, no holds barred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a few months time, the party will come out with a strong and vibrant leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party is doing self reevaluation and strategizing.Truth is, it remains the only party and platform that can give the ruling Labour party a strong opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Akobundu should be advised to allow members to choose their leaders; he should allow internal party democracy to prevail. His undemocratic tendencies chased the likes of Hon Onuigbo and many others out of PDP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leaders\u2019 high-handedness caused PDP\u2019s  loss in Abia guber election \u2013 Party chieftain Aguoru<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of New Media of the defunct Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Campaign Council in Abia State, Chief Uche Aguoru,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4178,13063,15,490,3],"tags":[121,13064,180,150,249],"class_list":["post-24394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia","category-aguoru","category-news","category-pdp","category-politics","tag-abia","tag-aguoru","tag-news","tag-pdp","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394","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=24394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}