{"id":81807,"date":"2026-01-18T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81807"},"modified":"2026-01-18T06:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T06:07:29","slug":"merger-talks-not-ripe-pdp-rules-out-immediate-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/18\/merger-talks-not-ripe-pdp-rules-out-immediate-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger Talks Not Ripe, PDP Rules Out Immediate Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has ruled out any immediate merger with other opposition parties, saying discussions are still at an early stage and have not matured into a formal alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, said the PDP currently has an understanding with other opposition groups based on a shared goal of challenging the ruling party, which he noted won the last election with less than 40 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for a merger, the time hasn\u2019t matured. We are still at an embryonic stage of collaboration,\u201d Ememobong said during an appearance on AIT\u2019s Democracy Today in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>On security, he warned that insecurity is becoming normalised across the country, describing the situation as grim and calling for comprehensive and sustainable solutions rather than temporary measures.<\/p>\n<p>Ememobong\u2019s remarks come amid deep internal divisions within the PDP, which is currently split into two rival factions following leadership disputes, defections and prolonged court battles that have weakened the party\u2019s national influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has ruled out any immediate merger with other opposition parties, saying discussions are still at an early stage and have not matured into a formal alliance. The party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, said the PDP currently has an understanding with other opposition groups based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81807","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\/81807","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=81807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81809,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81807\/revisions\/81809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}