{"id":78014,"date":"2025-11-04T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78014"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:45:29","slug":"fayose-declares-pdp-dead-in-ekiti-backs-oyebanji-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/fayose-declares-pdp-dead-in-ekiti-backs-oyebanji-for-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayose Declares PDP \u2018Dead\u2019 in Ekiti, Backs Oyebanji for Re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) \u201cdead\u201d in Ekiti State, saying all its governorship aspirants are \u201cfooling themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, Fayose said the PDP no longer has any credible structure in the state, adding that Governor Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) deserves re-election in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first place, where is the PDP in Ekiti? The party is totally moribund \u2014 just like at the national level,\u201d Fayose said. \u201cI am still in PDP, but Oyebanji is doing well, and I won\u2019t condemn what is good simply because I\u2019m in the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described Oyebanji as \u201cthe man Ekiti wants till 2030,\u201d praising his performance in office.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Ekiti PDP Chairman, Tunji Odeyemi, dismissed Fayose\u2019s remarks as \u201cunfortunate,\u201d insisting the party remains strong and united ahead of the 2026 governorship election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) \u201cdead\u201d in Ekiti State, saying all its governorship aspirants are \u201cfooling themselves.\u201d Speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, Fayose said the PDP no longer has any credible structure in the state, adding that Governor Biodun Oyebanji [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78014","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\/78014","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=78014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78016,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78014\/revisions\/78016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}