{"id":70717,"date":"2025-07-16T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70717"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:27:22","slug":"fct-council-poll-dont-be-selfish-pdp-warns-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/16\/fct-council-poll-dont-be-selfish-pdp-warns-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Council Poll: Don\u2019t Be Selfish, PDP Warns Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned its candidates for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Area Council elections against pursuing personal ambitions that could undermine the party\u2019s chances of victory in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the PDP FCT chapter, Ismail Dogara, issued the warning while handing over INEC nomination forms to the party\u2019s candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Dogara announced that the PDP would field six chairmanship and 62 councillorship candidates, expressing confidence in a sweeping victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring my campaign before emerging as state chairman, I said time and again that this party is too big to remain silent. And that is why we will not be silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nomination forms are here, including those for vice chairmen. Our goal is to win. Personal ambition, if it doesn\u2019t align with the party\u2019s, can cost us the election,\u201d Dogara said.<\/p>\n<p>Former House of Representatives member Micha Jibah urged the candidates to be bold and persistent in their campaign efforts, commending their courage in stepping forward.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the candidates, Gwagwalada chairmanship hopeful Kasim Mohammed thanked party leaders at all levels for the opportunity to contest under the PDP banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; The People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned its candidates for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Area Council elections against pursuing personal ambitions that could undermine the party\u2019s chances of victory in February 2026. Chairman of the PDP FCT chapter, Ismail Dogara, issued the warning while handing over INEC nomination forms to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70717","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70719,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70717\/revisions\/70719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}