{"id":1826,"date":"2014-09-15T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T07:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2014-09-15T07:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T07:42:44","slug":"pdp-accuses-bankole-of-anti-party-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"PDP accuses Bankole of anti-party activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1827\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dimeji-Bankole-360x2701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1827\" alt=\"Dimeji Bankole\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dimeji-Bankole-360x2701-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dimeji-Bankole-360x2701-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dimeji-Bankole-360x2701.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dimeji Bankole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has asked a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, to desist from visiting party formations in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The party alleged that such visit was causing disaffection within the party and urged him to put a stop to it.<\/p>\n<p>To express their dissatisfaction, the party\u2019s state secretary, Mr. Semiu Sodipo, wrote a letter to him, stating this position.<\/p>\n<p>The letter dated September 12, 2014, was titled \u2018Stoppage of Your Unapproved Tours\/Political Campaigns.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sodipo also copied the National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mua\u2019zu and the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Prof Rufai Alkali.<\/p>\n<p>The letter read in part, \u201cThis is to inform you that the party is being inundated with reports that your tour of some local governments is causing disaffection among party members and thereby creating disharmony and threatening the peace in the rank and file of the party membership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, it is believed that all your actions are being perpetrated so that you can divide the party before moving to another party since you have yet to obtain the party\u2019s State Expression of Interest Form. For your attention, the party is united, cohesive and have all that it takes to win the 2015 general elections with a landslide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Speaker, however, kept mum on the development, as he did not answer calls to his telephone. He had yet to respond to a text message sent to him on the matter as of press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has asked a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, to desist from visiting party formations in the state. The party alleged that such visit was causing disaffection within the party and urged him to put a stop to it. To express their dissatisfaction, the party\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Dimeji-Bankole-360x2701.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-ts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}