{"id":66483,"date":"2025-05-25T05:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66483"},"modified":"2025-05-25T05:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:32:44","slug":"umo-eno-bows-out-of-pdp-to-back-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/25\/umo-eno-bows-out-of-pdp-to-back-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Umo Eno Bows Out of PDP to Back Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adewunmi Oluwaseun\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has announced his decision to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, citing internal crisis and the need for political freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In a candid and now viral video, the governor declared, \u201cBy now, it should be clear that I\u2019m leaving the party. If you don\u2019t know that, then I don\u2019t know what you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Eno, who has recently spoken favorably of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s leadership, said he wants to operate in a political space where he can support the president without being accused of betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted he lacks the grit of FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, saying, \u201cI\u2019m not Wike &#8211; I don\u2019t have the energy for internal battles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that while PDP once held his loyalty, the party\u2019s fractured structure at the national level, coupled with legal risks over internal irregularities, made his continued stay untenable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical parties in Nigeria often lack real ideology differences. Our focus remains the ARISE Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support President Tinubu because he inherited, not created, Nigeria\u2019s current challenges,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Eno stressed that he is not one to play on both sides. \u201cIf I support Tinubu, I should be in a party where I can express that and support freely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adewunmi Oluwaseun\u00a0 Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has announced his decision to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, citing internal crisis and the need for political freedom. In a candid and now viral video, the governor declared, \u201cBy now, it should be clear that I\u2019m leaving the party. If you don\u2019t know that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66483","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66485,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66483\/revisions\/66485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}