{"id":1144329,"date":"2022-07-07T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/okupe-withdraws-as-labour-party-vice-presidential-candidate\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:59:03","slug":"okupe-withdraws-as-labour-party-vice-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/okupe-withdraws-as-labour-party-vice-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Okupe Withdraws As Labour Party Vice Presidential Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Doyin-Okupe-600x416.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_846859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-846859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-846859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Okupe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe has announced his withdrawal as the vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>He made the announcement via his twitter handle on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Okupe was \u2018a placeholder\u2019 Vice presidential candidate for Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, to beat the deadline of the Independent National Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:&nbsp;BREAKING: I Prefer Younger Running Mate \u2013 Peter Obi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his withdrawal, Okupe announced that his replacement will be announced soon by the National Chairman of the party.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis afternoon I submitted my withdrawal letter from the position of the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party to INEC.A replacement will be announced by d national chairman of d party shortly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel greatly blessed to hv been part of the foundation of success 4 the LP\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This afternoon I submitted my withdrawal letter from the position of the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party to INEC.A replacement will be announced by d national chairman of d party shortly.I feel greatly blessed to hv been part of the foundation of success 4 the LP<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doyin (@doyinokupe) July 7, 2022<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okupe Former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe has announced his withdrawal as the vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party. He made the announcement via his twitter handle on Thursday afternoon. Okupe was \u2018a placeholder\u2019 Vice presidential candidate for Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, to beat the deadline of the Independent National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144329","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\/1144329","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=1144329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}