People's Democratic Party PDP is a major contemporary聽political party聽in聽Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the聽centre-right聽of the聽political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the聽2015 elections, the governing party in the聽Fourth Republic聽although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. Currently, PDP controls 15 states out of 36 states聽in Nigeria.