{"id":8551,"date":"2022-05-31T04:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T04:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2022-05-31T04:53:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T04:53:51","slug":"peter-obi-secures-labour-party-presidential-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8551","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Secures Labour Party Presidential Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Former Anambra Governor Peter Obi has secured the presidential ticket of the Labour Party (LP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Obi emerged the party\u2019s presidential flag bearer at the Convention and presidential primary in Asaba, Delta State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Foremost economist, Prof Pat Utomi, stepped down for Obi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Utomi explained Obi is a younger aspirant with the capacity to effect the needed change in the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another aspirant, Joseph Faduri stepped down for the former governor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The development follows Obi\u2019s resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on May 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The former PDP aspirant blamed \u201crecent developments in the party\u201d for his move.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Anambra Governor Peter Obi has secured the presidential ticket of the Labour Party (LP). Obi emerged the party\u2019s presidential flag bearer at the Convention and presidential primary in Asaba, Delta State. Foremost economist, Prof Pat Utomi, stepped down for Obi. Utomi explained Obi is a younger aspirant with the capacity to effect the needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4987,4134,1536],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-labour-party","tag-peter-obi","tag-presidential-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551"}],"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=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8553,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions\/8553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}