{"id":1183624,"date":"2022-08-18T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/opposition-adopting-strategy-of-blaming-lp-for-fake-news-says-obi\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:54:48","slug":"opposition-adopting-strategy-of-blaming-lp-for-fake-news-says-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/opposition-adopting-strategy-of-blaming-lp-for-fake-news-says-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Adopting Strategy Of Blaming LP For Fake News, Says Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_841642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-841642\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-841642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Obi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has stated that the opposition is using fake news and misinformation against him and his party.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets on Thursday, Obi said supporters of LP must remain resolute and be focused on issue-based campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The standard bearer of the LP said Nigerians must resist deceit and campaigns that would cause disaffection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Don\u2019t Send Nigeria Into Tailspin With Too Much Criticism \u2013 Presidency Warns Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we approach the official kick off of the 2023 election campaign, it has become evident that the opposition have adopted a negative strategy of trolling and insinuating fake news and misinformation in the social media space and blaming the Labour Party, its presidential candidate, and their supporters,\u201d the presidential candidate tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain resolute in our commitment to an issue-based and clean campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will also rebuff all such ploys of deceit and calumny meant to create disaffection among Nigeria\u2019s voting population, who desire credible leadership change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Obi Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has stated that the opposition is using fake news and misinformation against him and his party. In a series of tweets on Thursday, Obi said supporters of LP must remain resolute and be focused on issue-based campaigns. The standard bearer of the LP said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183624","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\/1183624","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=1183624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}