{"id":238687,"date":"2025-12-31T19:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/2027-peter-obi-will-end-up-being-atikus-running-mate-again-presidency\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:59:40","slug":"2027-peter-obi-will-end-up-being-atikus-running-mate-again-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/2027-peter-obi-will-end-up-being-atikus-running-mate-again-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Peter Obi Will End Up Being Atiku\u2019s Running Mate Again \u2014 Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img width=\"780\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images-2025-12-31T124012.389-780x385.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"2667930583\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"143\">The Presidency has reacted to the defection of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"418\">In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Special Adviser to President Bola <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said Obi would likely end up as a running mate to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, similar to what played out during the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"568\">Onanuga said he watched Obi formally join the ADC after leaving the party he used to pursue what he described as an ill-fated presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"733\">The presidential spokesman also criticised Obi\u2019s leadership credentials, claiming he lacked the pedigree for national leadership beyond his success as an importer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"967\">\u201cObi is so blind that he cannot see all these achievements. He has jumped from the Labour Party to the ADC, where he will play second fiddle and end up being Atiku\u2019s running mate in 2027, just as we witnessed in 2019,\u201d Onanuga said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"1094\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Recall that Obi on Wednesday defected from the Labour Party to the ADC in Enugu, alongside other leaders from the South-East.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content \/--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- .toggle-post-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- .share-buttons \/--><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has reacted to the defection of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said Obi would likely end up as a running mate to former Vice President Atiku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images-2025-12-31T124012.389.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238687","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=238687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}