{"id":52827,"date":"2024-10-20T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T09:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=52827"},"modified":"2024-10-20T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T09:58:26","slug":"wike-reveals-intense-lobbying-from-obis-camp-before-2023-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/20\/wike-reveals-intense-lobbying-from-obis-camp-before-2023-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Reveals Intense Lobbying from Obi\u2019s Camp Before 2023 Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has revealed that Peter Obi&#8217;s camp heavily lobbied him before the 2023 presidential election, but he declined to support Obi. Wike, who hosted a private luncheon in Port Harcourt, said he had no regrets about backing Bola Tinubu, the eventual winner.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused some factions within the PDP and Obi\u2019s supporters of ganging up against him, noting that they see him as an obstacle.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wike reaffirmed his stance and expressed confidence that his political opponents would not succeed in their efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has revealed that Peter Obi&#8217;s camp heavily lobbied him before the 2023 presidential election, but he declined to support Obi. Wike, who hosted a private luncheon in Port Harcourt, said he had no regrets about backing Bola Tinubu, the eventual winner. He also accused some factions within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":52829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52830,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52827\/revisions\/52830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}