{"id":69114,"date":"2023-02-10T19:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=69114"},"modified":"2023-02-10T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:09:24","slug":"pdp-is-no-threat-to-apc-in-niger-state-bago-yakubu-campaign-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/pdp-is-no-threat-to-apc-in-niger-state-bago-yakubu-campaign-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Is No Threat To APC In Niger State -Bago\/ Yakubu Campaign DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olabode Adaramola<\/p>\n<p>The Niger State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said\u00a0 that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not a threat to its victory in the upcoming 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party stated this while speaking through the Director-General of the Bago\/Yakubu Governorship Campaign Directorate, Alhaji\u00a0 Isah Sidi Rijau, while speaking during\u00a0 the opening of a two-day retreat organised for members of the directorate on Thursday in Minna the State capital<\/p>\n<p>Rijau, however\u00a0 dismissed the euphoria that heralded\u00a0 the PDP boasting that \u201cwe will win all the elections in a landslide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the main opposition party,\u00a0 the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP)\u00a0 is not in any way a threat to our victory,\u201d Rijau stated further\u00a0 but however charged\u00a0 \u00a0members of the directorate not to be complacent, saying, \u201cWe need to put in more efforts to ensure all our candidates win all their elections from the top to bottom.\u201d<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>He ointed out that\u00a0 the essence of the retreat was to brainstorm and come up with strategies to be adopted for a successful campaign and elections.<\/p>\n<p>One of the leaders of the party, Major Gen. Mohammed Garba (rtd) advocated for peaceful campaign by its members, hilighting that,\u00a0 \u201cwe should not allow ourselves to be misled into going against the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garba explained that the retreat would come out with new strategies for the second phase of the presidential, national and state assemblies as well as governorship elections in the State.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niger State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said\u00a0 that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not a threat to its victory in the upcoming 2023 general elections.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,624],"tags":[224,225],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-69114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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