{"id":9106,"date":"2022-06-16T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2022-06-16T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:22:14","slug":"atiku-announces-okowa-as-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9106","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Announces Okowa As Running Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has announced Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Atiku made the announcement at a meeting attended by PDP executives at the party\u2019s headquarters in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, said a 17-member committee had been set up by the party to pick a running mate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He said the committee had submitted three names to Atiku to choose from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Speaking at the announcement event, Atiku said making a choice between the three names had been a difficult decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He also noted that some of the qualities he looked out for include someone who understands the enormity of the challenges facing the country and one who has demonstrated, from experience, that he can proffer some solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He said he looked out for one who has the qualities of a president, who can stand in for him when he\u2019s not around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to him, while all the three names submitted were qualified, he had to settle for just one: Okowa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, has announced Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate. Atiku made the announcement at a meeting attended by PDP executives at the party\u2019s headquarters in Abuja. PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, said a 17-member committee had been set up by the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1280,5137,110,4999],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-ifeanyi-okowa","tag-pdp","tag-running-mate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106"}],"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=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9108,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions\/9108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}