{"id":8462,"date":"2022-05-27T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2022-05-27T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T05:07:09","slug":"revealed-tinubu-kwankwaso-ekweremadu-may-lead-regional-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8462","title":{"rendered":"Revealed! Tinubu, Kwankwaso, Ekweremadu May Lead Regional Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Ahead of the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, indications have emerged that a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi; and national leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, may spearhead regional parties pending the outcome of the primaries that would take place this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Meanwhile, Peter Obi has been discussing with the NNPP but has not joined the party, The PUNCH learnt on Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">A source close to Kwankwaso, who was reacting to speculations that Obi had joined the NNPP after leaving the PDP, said, \u201cIt is not official, but that rumour is going on. I\u2019m not sure if he (Obi) has reached out to us. You know his resignation was just today (Wednesday). But I know they have been discussing it with Kwankwaso even before now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhat might happen is that the politics of 2023 might turn to regional politics. The NNPP is already strong in the North. There is a possibility that Ike Ekweremadu, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Peter Obi might form an alliance under another party in the South East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIf Asiwaju Bola Tinubu doesn\u2019t get the APC ticket, he might also go back to South-West with the Social Democratic Party. So, these three parties might become the big parties representing the regions in 2023.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, indications have emerged that a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi; and national leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, may spearhead regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions\/8464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}