{"id":69975,"date":"2025-07-08T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69975"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:29:31","slug":"obidients-free-to-support-obi-ill-back-atiku-dele-momodu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/obidients-free-to-support-obi-ill-back-atiku-dele-momodu\/","title":{"rendered":"Obidients Free to Support Obi, I\u2019ll Back Atiku -Dele Momodu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Media mogul and ADC chieftain, Chief Dele Momodu, has declared his support for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as his preferred presidential aspirant under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today on Monday, Momodu said his backing of Atiku does not invalidate the support of Obidients for Peter Obi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy best choice is Atiku. That\u2019s my right, just as Obidients can back Obi and Amaechi\u2019s supporters can back him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Momodu claimed the ruling APC fears Atiku\u2019s candidacy, hence its preference for a southern aspirant to emerge in the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that the coalition&#8217;s presidential ticket should be determined democratically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never asked anyone not to support Obi. He\u2019s my friend and a great candidate. Let all aspirants go to the field and test their popularity,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Media mogul and ADC chieftain, Chief Dele Momodu, has declared his support for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as his preferred presidential aspirant under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), coalition. Speaking on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today on Monday, Momodu said his backing of Atiku does not invalidate the support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69975","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69977,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69975\/revisions\/69977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}