{"id":80709,"date":"2025-12-22T05:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80709"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:36:49","slug":"2027-pdp-offers-otti-governorship-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/22\/2027-pdp-offers-otti-governorship-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: PDP Offers Otti Governorship Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, would be offered the party\u2019s governorship ticket ahead of the 2027 election if he defects to the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, made the remark while speaking on emerging political realignments, saying the party is open to accommodating influential politicians to boost its chances.<\/p>\n<p>Wabara described Otti as a capable leader, adding that his entry would strengthen the PDP\u2019s prospects in Abia State as the party seeks to reclaim the state.<\/p>\n<p>Otti, who was elected on the platform of the Labour Party in 2023, has not responded to the comment or indicated any plan to leave his party.<\/p>\n<p>The statement has stirred political debate in Abia as early manoeuvres for the 2027 governorship race begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, would be offered the party\u2019s governorship ticket ahead of the 2027 election if he defects to the PDP. Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, made the remark while speaking on emerging political realignments, saying the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80709","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=80709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80711,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80709\/revisions\/80711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}