{"id":229178,"date":"2026-04-01T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndc-not-a-proxy-of-apc-dickson\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:00:53","slug":"nigeria-ndc-not-a-proxy-of-apc-dickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndc-not-a-proxy-of-apc-dickson\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;NDC Not a Proxy of APC&#8217; &#8211; Dickson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The NDC founder said the party is an ideological platform established to bring together Nigerians who shared similar democratic values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The National Leader of Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/IamHSDickson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seriake Dickson<\/a><\/strong>, has dismissed insinuations that the party is a proxy of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mr Dickson, who represents Bayelsa West Senatorial District, said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603310559.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NDC founder said the party is an ideological platform established to bring together Nigerians who shared similar democratic values. The National Leader of Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Seriake Dickson, has dismissed insinuations that the party is a proxy of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Dickson, who represents Bayelsa West Senatorial District, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11297,14233,14287,257,4687,393,32069,254],"class_list":["post-229178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-dickson","tag-ndc","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-proxy","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}