{"id":921390,"date":"2022-02-01T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/02\/01\/id-run-for-president-if-pdp-zones-ticket-to-the-south-say-peter-obi\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:24:07","slug":"id-run-for-president-if-pdp-zones-ticket-to-the-south-say-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/01\/id-run-for-president-if-pdp-zones-ticket-to-the-south-say-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019d Run For President If PDP Zones Ticket To The South, Say Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_635233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-635233\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-635233 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/peter-obi.jpg\" alt=\"I\u2019d Run For President If PDP Zones Ticket To The South, Say Peter Obi\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-635233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Obi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, says he will run for president provided his party\u2019s ticket is zoned to the south.<\/p>\n<p>Obi, who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket as Atiku Abubakar\u2019s running mate in 2019, made the announcement via Twitter on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Okorocha Joins 2023 Presidential Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I will step into the field to contest for the opportunity to serve this great country as President if my party, the PDP, zones the ticket to the south,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \u201cBut if it is thrown open, Nigerians will also hear from me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Obi\u2019s announcement is coming less than 24 hours after Aminu Tambuwal, the governor of Sokoto state, also declared his intention to run for president under the umbrella of the PDP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Obi Former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi, says he will run for president provided his party\u2019s ticket is zoned to the south. Obi, who joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket as Atiku Abubakar\u2019s running mate in 2019, made the announcement via Twitter on Monday. Also Read:\u00a0Okorocha Joins 2023 Presidential Race \u201cYes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921390","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=921390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}