{"id":228243,"date":"2020-06-20T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T07:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=228243"},"modified":"2020-06-20T08:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T07:08:42","slug":"edo-peter-obi-reacts-as-obaseki-defects-to-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=228243","title":{"rendered":"Edo: Peter Obi reacts as Obaseki defects to PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Peter Obi, former Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to Governor Godwin Obaseki\u2019s official defection to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Obaseki announced his decision at the PDP Party secretariat in Edo State on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Obi expressed joy towards Obaseki\u2019s decision, adding it was the right decision to end rascality in Edo politics.<\/p>\n<p>On his Twitter page, Obi wrote late Friday night: \u201cI congratulate @GovernorObaseki for joining the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour movement is a step in the right direction to end the rascality in Edo politics, especially at this time when the country should focus on ways of ameliorating the huge suffering of Nigerians due to #COVID19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Obi, former Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to Governor Godwin Obaseki\u2019s official defection to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. DAILY POST recalls that Obaseki announced his decision at the PDP Party secretariat in Edo State on Friday afternoon. Obi expressed joy towards Obaseki\u2019s decision, adding it was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,530,7001,58,6214],"class_list":["post-228243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-edo","tag-obaseki","tag-pdp","tag-peter-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}