{"id":51522,"date":"2018-10-12T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51522"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T09:21:50","slug":"2019-obasanjos-endorsement-of-atiku-will-determine-winner-of-elections-agbakoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=51522","title":{"rendered":"2019: Obasanjo&#8217;s endorsement of Atiku will determine winner of elections &#8211; Agbakoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mr.-Olisa-Agbakoba.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chief Olisa Agbakoba, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday, said former president Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s endorsement of former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar will go a long way in determining the outcome of the 2019 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Daily Independent, Agbakoba said Obasanjo has been behind every successful presidential campaign in the last 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, Obasanjo is Nigeria\u2019s most influential politician and elder statesman and he has been behind every successful presidential campaign of the last 12 years or so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, this endorsement is very weighty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku met Obasanjo within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the meeting included: the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Bishop Matthew Kukah; Founder of Living Faith Church, Pastor David Oyedepo; a leading Moslem cleric, Sheik Ibrahim Gumi; and Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, among others.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Olisa Agbakoba, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday, said former president Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s endorsement of former Vice-president Atiku Abubakar will go a long way in determining the outcome of the 2019 presidential election. Speaking with Daily Independent, Agbakoba said Obasanjo has been behind every successful presidential campaign in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8591,"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":[1048,519],"class_list":["post-51522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-olusegun-obasanjo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51522","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=51522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}