{"id":1271801,"date":"2022-12-30T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/30\/reactions-as-inec-insists-that-peter-obis-campaign-dg-is-contesting-in-2023-in-another-party\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:22:51","slug":"reactions-as-inec-insists-that-peter-obis-campaign-dg-is-contesting-in-2023-in-another-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/30\/reactions-as-inec-insists-that-peter-obis-campaign-dg-is-contesting-in-2023-in-another-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions As INEC Insists That Peter Obi&#8217;s Campaign DG Is Contesting In 2023 In Another Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Many Nigerians have begun to react as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) insists that the Director-General of the campaign organisation of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi is contesting in 2023 in another political party.<\/p>\n<p>The new Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organization, Akin Osuntokun took over from Dr Doyin Okupe after the latter was convicted and jailed with an option of fine for money laundering.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/8e728a6a59d249138da3caaa7cd20888\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign council, Akin Osuntokun, remains the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) senatorial candidate for Ekiti Central Senatorial Zone.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Nation Newspaper,\u00a0<span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">It is unclear if Professor Akin Osuntokun officially defected to Labour Party.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/e392a4c71f254d40a6eb01026d071a22\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/c87d4e69ce0942cfae1a43f2cae9064e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The recent report by The Nation Newspaper on its verified Facebook page has generated a lot of reactions from many Nigerians on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>News Source \u2013 The Nation Newspaper Verified Facebook Page<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OgbeniPOG (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 \/>Doyin<br \/>INEC<br \/>Peter Obi<br \/>The Nation<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Nigerians have begun to react as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) insists that the Director-General of the campaign organisation of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi is contesting in 2023 in another political party. The new Director-General of the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organization, Akin Osuntokun took over from Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271801","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\/1271801","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=1271801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}