{"id":6215,"date":"2017-12-07T17:33:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2017-12-07T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:33:47","slug":"pdp-convention-our-chance-torestore-dignity-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6215","title":{"rendered":"PDP Convention:\u00a0Our Chance\u00a0to Restore Dignity &#8212;Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Paul Mumeh<\/strong>, Media Assistant to Senator David Mark.<br \/>\nFormer President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has for the umpteenth time told faithfuls of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Saturday\u2019s elective Convention to allow the will of the people prevail and restore the dignity of the Party.<br \/>\nSenator Mark in a message to the delegates, urged them to shun those ills such as imposition of candidates and impunity that ruined the chances of the Party in the previous elections.<br \/>\nSenator Mark stressed that \u201cwe have seen what the imposition of candidates caused us in the past. We cannot travel the same route anymore.<br \/>\n\u201cI am sure we have learnt some useful lessons from our electoral misfortune in 2015. We now have the opportunity to right the wrongs of the past by allowing the will of the people to prevail at the convention\u201d.<br \/>\nThe former Senate President expressed confidence in the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led National Convention Committee to do a good job and return the Party to the people.<br \/>\nSenator Mark enjoined Party Faithful to adhere to the rules of the game in order to guarantee a smooth Convention \u201cbecause only the rule of law and adherence to the principle of Democracy endures\u201d.<br \/>\nHe advised the would-be winners and losers to accept the outcome of the elections in the interest of all, saying, \u201cWin or lose, we are still one family. All we need to do is put our house in order in the interest of the Party and its members because I can see a bright future\u201d.<br \/>\nHe welcomed the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and others back to the party just as he enjoined all those who defected to return home because \u201cPDP is still the only National Party and a home for all\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Mumeh, Media Assistant to Senator David Mark. Former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has for the umpteenth time told faithfuls of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Saturday\u2019s elective Convention to allow the will of the people prevail and restore the dignity of the Party. Senator Mark in a message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}