{"id":52307,"date":"2018-10-14T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52307"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:51:03","slug":"apc-vs-pdp-wike-speaks-on-atikus-chances-against-buhari-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52307","title":{"rendered":"APC vs PDP: Wike speaks on Atiku&#8217;s chances against Buhari in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Rivers-2019-Wike-emerges-PDP-guber-candidate-as-Cole-Abe-fight-for-APC-sole-ticket.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will dethrone the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Sunday during a Special Thanksgiving Service for the successful hosting of 2018 PDP National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Admitting that he wanted Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, Wike said he had accepted the party\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI supported the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal fully. I have no regrets for my support for Tambuwal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the party has made a choice and as a loyal party man, I stand by the choice of the party. I will support His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar to victory in 2019. That is what is called party loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must put our heads together to ensure that this bad government is sacked. We must ensure that this bad government goes in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this same government returns in 2019, then Nigerians are digging their graves. The suffering now will be a child\u2019s play. That is why we must work for the good of our people\u201d.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will dethrone the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government in 2019. He spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Sunday during a Special Thanksgiving Service for the successful hosting of 2018 PDP National Convention. Admitting that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47956,"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":[5091],"class_list":["post-52307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-nyesom-wike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52307","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=52307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}