{"id":1197,"date":"2020-06-12T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2020-06-12T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T22:00:27","slug":"edo-2020-we-are-ready-to-accept-obaseki-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/edo-2020-we-are-ready-to-accept-obaseki-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo 2020: ‘We are ready to accept Obaseki’ – PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is ready to welcome the Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki, if he decides to decamp following his disqualification from the forthcoming governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PDP\u2019s National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated this in Abuja on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When asked if the opposition party would admit Obaseki into its fold, Ologbondiyan replied: \u201cYes, we will accept him of course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He however insisted that no discussions have taken place between PDP and the Governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ologbondiyan also made it clear that Obaseki will not be handed an automatic ticket if he joins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cJoining a party is different from contesting election. These are two separate things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople join political parties from their wards. We are in touch with our Edo State chapter and they have not told us that the governor had joined our party,\u201d the PDP spokesperson added, according to The Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier on Friday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) disqualified Obaseki, from contesting in its primary on June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is ready to welcome the Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki, if he decides to decamp following his disqualification from the forthcoming governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress. PDP\u2019s National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated this in Abuja on Friday. When asked if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[76,234,347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}