{"id":239141,"date":"2026-01-12T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/their-fear-is-too-obvious-adeyanju-queries-major-tinubus-supporters-for-backing-peter-obis-presidential-ambition\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:41:07","slug":"their-fear-is-too-obvious-adeyanju-queries-major-tinubus-supporters-for-backing-peter-obis-presidential-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/their-fear-is-too-obvious-adeyanju-queries-major-tinubus-supporters-for-backing-peter-obis-presidential-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Their Fear Is Too Obvious\u2019 \u2013 Adeyanju Queries Major Tinubu\u2019s Supporters For Backing Peter Obi\u2019s Presidential Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Nigerian lawyer cum human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has questioned why frontline supporters of President Bola <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>are backing former Governor of Anambra State,<strong> Peter Obi<\/strong>, to emerge as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).<\/p>\n<p>Adeyanju, in a post via his \ud835\udd4f handle, claimed that major Tinubu\u2019s supporters like the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo and former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, among others are supporting Peter Obi to emerge as ADC 2027 candidate.<\/p>\n<p><b>Abia Radio News\u00a0<\/b>reports that Adeyanju was reacting to Fayose\u2019s remark that Peter Obi is the only living person in the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>Fayose made this known during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s \u2018Politics Today\u2019 programme on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<strong>Fayose<\/strong>, other chieftains of the ADC and political figures in the party are old forces and no longer exist.<\/p>\n<p>He said, <i>\u201cPeter Obi is the only life in ADC. Other lives there are semi-existing. Atiku and Tambuwal destroyed PDP.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the statement, Adeyanju asserted that Tinubu\u2019s supporters are obviously afraid of a Northern presidential candidate, especially the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, <i>\u201cWhy are all major <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>supporters promoting Peter Obi their man Friday? From Keyamo to Fayose, etc; they want the coalition to present Obi.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWhy does it look like they are afraid of a northern candidate, especially the serial contester Atiku? Their fear is too obvious.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n                                                                                                            <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian lawyer cum human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has questioned why frontline supporters of President Bola Tinubu are backing former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, to emerge as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Adeyanju, in a post via his \ud835\udd4f handle, claimed that major Tinubu\u2019s supporters like the Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239142,"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":[439,924,274],"class_list":["post-239141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-deji-adeyanju","tag-peter-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DEJI-ADEYANJU.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239141","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=239141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}