{"id":6721,"date":"2023-05-09T07:18:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2023-05-09T07:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:18:47","slug":"three-kogi-assembly-candidates-dump-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/three-kogi-assembly-candidates-dump-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Kogi Assembly Candidates Dump PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Mopamuro, Ijumu and Yagba West state constituencies in the last House of Assembly elections in Kogi State have resigned their membership of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jones Daniel (Mopamuro), Olupeka Joseph (Ijumu) and Maiyaki Sunday (Yagba West), however, did not indicate their next political destination. In different letters addressed to the chairmen of the PDP in Ileteju\/Origa Ward (Ijumu), Ward 03 (Mopamuro) and Odo-Eri\/Okoto Ward (Yagba West), dated May 8, 2023, the trio communicated their decision to resign their membership to the ward executives \u201cto pursue other interests,\u201d while wishing the party well in its future activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Olupeka and Jones had lost their bids for election into the Kogi Assembly to All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates, while Maiyaki lost to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maiyaki, who noted that he had been an \u201cardent\u201d member of the PDP from inception in 1999, said he decided to quit his membership due to impunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe slogan of the party, \u2018Power to the People\u2019, is now power to a few. I wish the party well in its future endeavours,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Mopamuro, Ijumu and Yagba West state constituencies in the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[34,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-6721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-kogi","8":"tag-pdp"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Three Kogi Assembly Candidates Dump PDP - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Mopamuro, Ijumu and Yagba West state constituencies in the last House of Assembly elections in Kogi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/three-kogi-assembly-candidates-dump-pdp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Kogi Assembly Candidates Dump PDP - 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