{"id":453076,"date":"2022-06-23T22:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=453076"},"modified":"2022-06-24T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:17:00","slug":"2023-why-i-didnt-reject-atikus-request-to-be-his-running-mate-gov-okowa-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=453076","title":{"rendered":"2023: Why I didn\u2019t reject Atiku\u2019s request to be his running mate \u2013 Gov Okowa opens up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has given reasons he accepted to be running mate to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday, Okowa said \u201cIt would have been a disservice on my part to have turned down the Vice President nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a party man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also insisted that he is an Igbo man, adding \u201cthe time will come when an Igbo man will become the President of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atiku last week, picked the Governor of Delta state, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his choice, Atiku stated that Okowa possesses all qualities needed for the job of Vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has given reasons he accepted to be running mate to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday, Okowa said \u201cIt would have been a disservice on my part to have turned down the Vice President nomination. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":453101,"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":[3,4],"tags":[2658,1048,7492],"class_list":["post-453076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-ifeanyi-okowa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453076","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=453076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/453101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}