{"id":1271458,"date":"2022-12-29T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/i-was-invited-by-one-of-the-major-candidates-to-lead-his-campaign-but-i-declined-akin-osuntokun\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T23:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:02:51","slug":"i-was-invited-by-one-of-the-major-candidates-to-lead-his-campaign-but-i-declined-akin-osuntokun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/i-was-invited-by-one-of-the-major-candidates-to-lead-his-campaign-but-i-declined-akin-osuntokun\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Invited By One Of The Major Candidates To Lead His Campaign But I Declined -Akin Osuntokun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>According to the recently appointed Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, one of the three front-runners invited Prof. Akin Osuntokun to head his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He made these comments during a recent discussion about his new role inside the party with Labour Party members. He acknowledged that the Labour Party offered an invitation to him before to his appointment, but he declined it.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that he felt bad about declining the invitation because of his acquaintance with the candidate who extended it.<\/p>\n<p>He proclaimed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t mention the identity of the candidate because I want to be completely honest with you, but I will say that I declined a direct invitation to lend my support to one of the Frontline presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"0jWo4-iJHFg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018I Am Sacrificing My All For Peter Obi\u2019 \u2013 Hear New Campaign DG On How LP Will Win &amp; Obasanjo\u2019s Role\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jWo4-iJHFg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p> <iframe><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I really admired the presidential candidate in question, therefore it was hard for me to say no.\u201d It would challenge both his moral attitude and the ideals he has been preaching, he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Bubutain (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkin Osuntokun<br \/>Labour Party<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the recently appointed Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, one of the three front-runners invited Prof. Akin Osuntokun to head his campaign. He made these comments during a recent discussion about his new role inside the party with Labour Party members. He acknowledged that the Labour Party offered an invitation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271458","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\/1271458","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=1271458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}