{"id":16655,"date":"2023-11-17T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16655"},"modified":"2023-11-17T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T10:28:29","slug":"lp-deny-plans-to-merge-with-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16655","title":{"rendered":"LP Deny Plans To Merge With PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Labour Party on Thursday said it has no plan to merge with the Peoples Democratic Party to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress in the 2027 general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">PDP\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, suggested that opposition parties need to merge to defeat the ruling APC in the next presidential poll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">LP spokesman, Obiora Ifoh while reacting to Atiku\u2019s suggestion in a statement on Thursday said the party has not discussed any merger<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ifoh said Atiku\u2019s call \u201cwas only a proposal and every Nigerian should be interested in making democracy work in Nigeria and that what we have presently is an autocracy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere was nowhere in the response that the purported merger between LP and PDP was mentioned,\u201d Ifoh emphasised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, the APC faulted Atiku\u2019s merger plan saying\u00a0he was still struggling to come to terms with reality after his loss at the presidential poll<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Felix Morka said the PDP should focus on resolving its internal party crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Party on Thursday said it has no plan to merge with the Peoples Democratic Party to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress in the 2027 general elections. PDP\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, suggested that opposition parties need to merge to defeat the ruling APC in the next presidential poll. LP spokesman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1280,5097,110,4134],"class_list":["post-16655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-lp","tag-pdp","tag-peter-obi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16657,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655\/revisions\/16657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}