{"id":52292,"date":"2018-10-14T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52292"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:36:25","slug":"igbo-youths-finally-react-to-peter-obis-emergence-as-pdp-vp-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52292","title":{"rendered":"Igbo youths finally react to Peter Obi&#8217;s emergence as PDP VP candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BREAKING-2019-Atiku-meets-Peter-Obi-as-he-prepares-to-name-running-mate-PHOTOS.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths (Worldwide) has commended the PDP and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for choosing an Igbo son as a vice presidential candidate for the 2019 general elections.<br \/>\nThe commendation was given through a statement issued in Owerri on Sunday by its Acting National President, Dr Kingsley Dozie and Emeka Odom, its Assistant National Legal Adviser.<\/p>\n<p>It said that assistance of Igbo youths would be made available to the PDP having chosen Dr Peter Obi as its presidential running mate.<br \/>\nThe group said it had already started discussing and liasing with youths of other ethnic nationalities on how to have a productive and people-oriented election.<br \/>\n\u201cTo restructure Nigeria is our priority now and we\u2019ll get it right this time.<br \/>\n\u201cThe choice of the former governor, Peter Obi is great. He was not wasteful in the management of resources while serving as governor.<br \/>\n\u201cPeter Obi is a good choice. He will bring business intelligence into governance.<br \/>\n\u201cHe is not corrupt and as a governor, he was not wasteful. Igbo youths are very happy .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObi\u2019s success story as a businessman would help in reviving the nation\u2019s economy if elected in 2019.<br \/>\n\u201cThe decision to pick him, we believe, is based on his outstanding performance as governor of Anambra state,\u201d it said.<br \/>\nThe group said that as a successful businessman, it expected Obi to translate his wealth of experience into good governance for the nation.<br \/>\nThey expressed optimism that he would not disappoint Ndigbo in particular and Nigeria at large.<\/p>\n<p>The group had earlier commended the PDP for electing Abubakar as its presidential candidate in the 2019 elections.<br \/>\nIts leader, Dr Kingsley Dozie, described Abubakar as an apostle of restructuring.<br \/>\nHe promised that his group would liase with its parent body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, alongside \u201cour brothers after our consultations and get it right this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party\u2019 s primary was free and fair and the most credible presidential primaries.<br \/>\n\u201cIgbo youths are pleased with the party\u2019s style of leadership and particularly the restructuring agenda of its candidate which placed him first in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, the leadership of igbo youths, led by Kingsley Dozie, shall mobilize all igbo youths, home and abroad, to ensure that a better candidate who places our interest as a priority and who will genuinely restructure Nigeria emerged as the president of Nigeria come 2019,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths (Worldwide) has commended the PDP and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for choosing an Igbo son as a vice presidential candidate for the 2019 general elections. The commendation was given through a statement issued in Owerri on Sunday by its Acting National President, Dr Kingsley Dozie and Emeka Odom, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51979,"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":[6214],"class_list":["post-52292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-peter-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292","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=52292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}