{"id":76037,"date":"2025-10-03T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76037"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:30:29","slug":"pdp-convention-must-uphold-fairness-inclusivity-makinde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/03\/pdp-convention-must-uphold-fairness-inclusivity-makinde\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Convention Must Uphold Fairness, Inclusivity -Makinde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has stressed that the forthcoming national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must be anchored on fairness, open debate, and inclusivity to reposition the party ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a newsletter released on Thursday, Makinde pointed to the recently concluded Oyo PDP congress, which he described as rancour-free, saying it should serve as a model for the national convention scheduled for November 15-16 in Ibadan, where 19 new members of the National Working Committee will be elected.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that the party\u2019s 101st National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting in July had already identified the convention as the pathway to restructuring and revitalizing the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent PDP Oyo State congress was held without rancour, and we now look forward to our Ibadan convention with hope rather than fear,\u201d Makinde said. \u201cA convention grounded in fair processes, open debate, inclusivity and respect will not only strengthen our party but also send a powerful message that politics can be dignified.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has stressed that the forthcoming national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must be anchored on fairness, open debate, and inclusivity to reposition the party ahead of the 2027 general elections. In a newsletter released on Thursday, Makinde pointed to the recently concluded Oyo PDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76037","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=76037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76039,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76037\/revisions\/76039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}