{"id":4242,"date":"2023-11-17T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T10:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2023-11-17T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T10:24:17","slug":"no-plans-to-merge-with-pdp-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/no-plans-to-merge-with-pdp-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"No Plans To Merge With PDP \u2013 LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">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.<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}