{"id":236132,"date":"2025-09-30T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/jerry-gana-free-to-air-views-but-jonathan-hasnt-declared-for-2027-says-pdp\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:57:07","slug":"jerry-gana-free-to-air-views-but-jonathan-hasnt-declared-for-2027-says-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/jerry-gana-free-to-air-views-but-jonathan-hasnt-declared-for-2027-says-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Gana free to air views, but Jonathan hasn\u2019t declared for 2027, says PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Jerry Gana, former minister of information, is free to express his views on the party\u2019s 2027 presidential ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Debo Ologunagba, PDP national publicity secretary, said this on Monday while reacting to Gana\u2019s claim that former president Goodluck Jonathan would contest on the party\u2019s platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ologunagba said he is neither spokesman for Gana nor Jonathan, but stressed that the party is currently focused on its forthcoming national convention scheduled for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan, Oyo state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">His words: \u201cI don\u2019t speak for Professor Jerry Gana. People can express their opinion. But, I will emphasise that in this party, as we are today, President Jonathan is a member; he has not said he\u2019s not a member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cBut, I can tell you, today, this party has eminently qualified Nigerians, particularly at the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">governors<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> level, who have done exceedingly well, that Nigeria can tap on that and say, step up to the place and do the right thing, because their performances in their state show their capacity, which is actually the DNA of the PDP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI invite you to have a peer review mechanism between PDP states and the APC states. This is the conversation we should be having for the Nigerian people to look at PDP and see the array of qualified people that are there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cSo, I don\u2019t speak for former President Jonathan. I don\u2019t speak for Jerry Gana, with all due respect. But our party is focused on our convention. And when we get to that bridge, we\u2019ll cross it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There are rumours that the former president will join the 2027 race, prompting the presidency to issue a statement yesterday on the matter. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says Jerry Gana, former minister of information, is free to express his views on the party\u2019s 2027 presidential ticket. Debo Ologunagba, PDP national publicity secretary, said this on Monday while reacting to Gana\u2019s claim that former president Goodluck Jonathan would contest on the party\u2019s platform. Ologunagba said he is neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Debo-Ologunagba-PDP-spokesperson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}