{"id":1143317,"date":"2022-07-06T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/06\/i-prefer-younger-running-mate-peter-obi\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:13:12","slug":"i-prefer-younger-running-mate-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/06\/i-prefer-younger-running-mate-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"I Prefer Younger Running Mate \u2013 Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Peter-Obi-1-600x388.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_844931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-844931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-844931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Obi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has opened up on his choice of running mate.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that he preferred a younger person as vice-presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra State governor stated this while featuring on Arise TV Morning Show on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:&nbsp;Doyin Okupe Confirms LP-NNPP Alliance Is Dead, Says Kwankwaso No Match For Obi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He added that he prefers a younger person who has something to offer to complement his ticket rather than recycling old hands who had been in the government before now.<\/p>\n<p>This statement comes hours after his \u2018Vice Presidential Candidate\u2019 Doyin Okupe revealed that merger talk between Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP had collapsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Obi The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has opened up on his choice of running mate. He stated that he preferred a younger person as vice-presidential candidate. The former Anambra State governor stated this while featuring on Arise TV Morning Show on Wednesday. Also Read:&nbsp;Doyin Okupe Confirms LP-NNPP Alliance Is Dead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}