{"id":233690,"date":"2026-05-19T04:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-apc-now-running-akwa-ibom-pdp-exco-member-of-wike-backed-pdp-faction-laments\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:23:12","slug":"nigeria-apc-now-running-akwa-ibom-pdp-exco-member-of-wike-backed-pdp-faction-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-apc-now-running-akwa-ibom-pdp-exco-member-of-wike-backed-pdp-faction-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: APC Now Running Akwa Ibom PDP, Exco Member of Wike-Backed PDP Faction Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The PDP official says aspirants, including himself, were denied PDP nomination forms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">A member of the Akwa Ibom State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Fabian Emmanuel, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) now dictates internal affairs of the PDP in the state, following Governor Umo Eno&#8217;s defection to the APC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Mr Emmanuel, the assistant organising secretary 1 of the PDP in Akwa Ibom and a member of the Nyesom Wike faction of the party, made the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605180547.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 PDP official says aspirants, including himself, were denied PDP nomination forms. A member of the Akwa Ibom State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Fabian Emmanuel, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) now dictates internal affairs of the PDP in the state, following Governor Umo Eno&#8217;s defection to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233691,"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":[258,256,16009,11297,19756,18711,16010,16252,6483,257,4687,393,905,9752,254,54043],"class_list":["post-233690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akwa","tag-apc","tag-exco","tag-faction","tag-ibom","tag-laments","tag-member","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pdp","tag-running","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wikebacked"],"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\/233690","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=233690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}