{"id":63517,"date":"2025-03-29T21:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63517"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:33:18","slug":"peter-obi-dismisses-claims-of-joining-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/29\/peter-obi-dismisses-claims-of-joining-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Dismisses Claims of Joining APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has firmly denied reports suggesting he plans to join the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Obi dismissed the claims as baseless, stating that he does not engage in toxic politics or manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the avoidance of doubt, both now and in the future, I am not a member of the APC, nor am I an intending member,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Obi emphasized that political parties should assess candidates based on competence, capacity, and compassion rather than propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>He also weighed in on the political journey of former Labour Party member Valentine Ozigbo, stressing that aspirants should be judged on merit, not controversy.<\/p>\n<p>As the Anambra governorship election approaches, Obi called for free and fair primaries, urging all parties to uphold transparency and justice.<\/p>\n<p>He said Nigeria must reject toxic politics to achieve true democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has firmly denied reports suggesting he plans to join the All Progressives Congress. In a post on X, Obi dismissed the claims as baseless, stating that he does not engage in toxic politics or manipulation. &#8220;For the avoidance of doubt, both now and in the future, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63517","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\/63517","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=63517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63519,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63517\/revisions\/63519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}