{"id":9093,"date":"2022-06-14T19:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2022-06-14T19:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:06:40","slug":"pdp-chair-tambuwal-others-hold-closed-door-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9093","title":{"rendered":"PDP Chair, Tambuwal, Others Hold Closed-door Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In what can be likened to be a move to pick the running mate for Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyiochia Ayu, and members of the committee set up for the purpose, are currently holding a closed-door meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The meeting is being held at the party\u2019s National Secretariat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The PUNCH had reported that speculations were that <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/2023-okowa-may-emerge-atikus-running-mate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State could emerge as Atiku\u2019s running mate.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">People in the meeting include the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Aminu Tambuwal; Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed; former Senate President, David Mark; former Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko; former Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke, and Senator Philip Aduda, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, parties have until June 17, 2022, as the final day for the submission of candidates for the presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what can be likened to be a move to pick the running mate for Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the National Chairman of the party, Senator Iyiochia Ayu, and members of the committee set up for the purpose, are currently holding a closed-door meeting. The meeting is being held at the party\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1407,5151,5253],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-aminu-tambuwal","tag-closed-door-meeting","tag-pdp-chair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093"}],"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=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9095,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}