{"id":62550,"date":"2025-03-11T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62550"},"modified":"2025-03-11T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:49:01","slug":"dele-momodu-reveals-why-he-fell-out-with-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/11\/dele-momodu-reveals-why-he-fell-out-with-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Dele Momodu Reveals Why He Fell Out with Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chieftain Dele Momodu has revealed that his rift with Nyesom Wike began when he declared his intention to run for the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Honest Bunch podcast, Momodu disclosed that while Wike never officially declared his ambition, he frequently engaged the media in ways that suggested he had presidential aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Before announcing his candidacy, Momodu sought Wike\u2019s support, knowing he would face challenges securing northern votes.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wike dismissed his request and later made sarcastic remarks about him on television, further straining their relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chieftain Dele Momodu has revealed that his rift with Nyesom Wike began when he declared his intention to run for the 2023 presidential election. Speaking on the Honest Bunch podcast, Momodu disclosed that while Wike never officially declared his ambition, he frequently engaged the media in ways that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62550","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62552,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62550\/revisions\/62552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}