{"id":42898,"date":"2024-07-21T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ebonyi-lg-polls-pdp-reveals-reason-for-non-participation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T06:00:24","slug":"ebonyi-lg-polls-pdp-reveals-reason-for-non-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ebonyi-lg-polls-pdp-reveals-reason-for-non-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebonyi LG polls: PDP reveals reason for non-participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ebonyi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed dismay over the party\u2019s non-participation in the Saturday Local Government elections, blaming the development on its leadership crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The elections were held in the 171 wards of the 13 councils of the state.<\/p>\n<p>PDP Chairman, Caretaker Committee in the state, Mr Steve Oruruo, said that the party was not happy with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he and his executive were working assiduously to bring the party back to life in Ebonyi, urging members to be more united.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, we are not happy for not fielding a candidate. Of course, you must build your house first before you will be able to nominate candidates for elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true that our party is facing a lot of challenges, ranging from leadership crisis and all that. I encourage our members to be focused on oneness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we are building a strong platform to ensure that our party is stronger and united for a better Ebonyi and Nigeria at large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not good having one party system in Ebonyi and that\u2019s not good for democracy,\u201d Oruruo added.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the major opposition parties in the state, including the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party, PDP, among others could not field candidates for the elections.<\/p>\n<p>Ebonyi LG polls: PDP reveals reason for non-participation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebonyi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed dismay over the party\u2019s non-participation in the Saturday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17506,15,490,3],"tags":[654,190,180,21611,150,249,128,3408,296],"class_list":["post-42898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebonyi-lg-polls","category-news","category-pdp","category-politics","tag-ebonyi","tag-for","tag-news","tag-non-participation","tag-pdp","tag-politics","tag-polls","tag-reason","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898","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=42898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}