{"id":17439,"date":"2024-01-30T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17439"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T15:29:31","slug":"edo-2024-i-dont-regret-joining-labour-party-akpata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/30\/edo-2024-i-dont-regret-joining-labour-party-akpata\/","title":{"rendered":"EDO 2024: I Don&#8217;t Regret Joining Labour Party &#8211; Akpata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governorship hopeful for the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Edo state, under the auspices of Labour Party (LP), Olumide Akpata has said the incumbent People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) under the reigns of Godwin Obaseke, is at its lowest ebb, due largely to his under performance.<\/p>\n<p>Akpata who described the ruling PDP in Edo state as a \u2018\u2019helicopter government\u2019\u2019 on The Morning Show\u00a0 segment of Arise TV, bemoaned the sorry state of roads in the state, which has necessitated the governor to fly across the state in a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>He said the PDP lacks ideology and due diligence which formed the basis of his departure.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Due diligence stops at what a party believes in, stops at its ideology and posturing. I was looking for a party that would help bring the people back into the equation. The Labour Party is the only party that is interested in the people and wants them to have a say in governance, that&#8217;s why I joined them.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governorship hopeful for the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in Edo state, under the auspices of Labour Party (LP), Olumide Akpata has said the incumbent People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) under the reigns of Godwin Obaseke, is at its lowest ebb, due largely to his under performance. Akpata who described the ruling PDP in Edo state as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-17439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-olumide-akpata"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17455,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439\/revisions\/17455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}