{"id":80920,"date":"2025-12-29T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80920"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:16:22","slug":"peter-obi-confirms-2027-presidential-bid-rules-out-vp-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/29\/peter-obi-confirms-2027-presidential-bid-rules-out-vp-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Confirms 2027 Presidential Bid, Rules Out VP Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has confirmed that he will contest the 2027 presidential election, firmly ruling out any vice-presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Obi made the declaration on Sunday night during an X Spaces conversation, where he addressed questions about his political future and leadership plans ahead of the next general election.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra State governor dismissed suggestions that he could accept a running mate position in 2027, saying his experience and preparation are focused on the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not travelling round the world to learn governance to be Vice President,\u201d Obi said, adding that he believes he has the capacity and experience to lead Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Obi stated unequivocally that he would be on the ballot in 2027 and called for the support and prayers of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>His confirmation has reignited political discussions, particularly among Labour Party supporters and youth groups that backed his 2023 presidential bid, while putting to rest speculations about a possible vice-presidential role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has confirmed that he will contest the 2027 presidential election, firmly ruling out any vice-presidential ambition. Obi made the declaration on Sunday night during an X Spaces conversation, where he addressed questions about his political future and leadership plans ahead of the next general election. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1755,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2027-general-elections","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80920","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80922,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80920\/revisions\/80922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}