The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-West region has come out to mourn with a chieftain of the party and a former member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Muyiwa Oladimeji, over the passing of his wife, Professor Benedicta Oladimeji.

PDP recently revealed this via a condolence message by its Secretary, Rahman Owokoniran, on behalf of the Chairman, Taofeeq Arapaja, and members.

According to him, the news of his wife’s passing left the party in shock because she was a very caring and intelligent woman who supported her husband Dr. Muyiwa Oladimeji immensely in party activities.

Rahman added that she will definitely be greatly missed, and he hopes God will grant the PDP chieftain the fortitude to bear the loss.

R.I.P.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. Currently, PDP controls 14 states out of 36 states in Nigeria.

In 1998 the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria norminated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May, 1999.

The longtime slogan of the People’s Democratic Party has been “Power to the people”. During the party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 21 May 2016, David Mark, a former President of the Senate of Nigeria, introduced “Change the change” as the party’s campaign slogan for the 2019 general elections.