{"id":52833,"date":"2018-10-16T22:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52833"},"modified":"2018-10-16T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T21:48:48","slug":"atiku-to-discuss-peter-obi-with-aggrieved-south-east-leaders-when-he-returns-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=52833","title":{"rendered":"Atiku To Discuss Peter Obi With Aggrieved South-East Leaders When He Returns From the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When he returns from his current trip to the United Kingdom, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), intends to discuss the choice of Peter Obi as his running mate with the party leaders in the South-East who are unhappy with the development.<\/p>\n

After Obi, former Governor of Anambra State, was announced Atiku\u2019s running mate on Friday, some South-East PDP leaders, including four state governors \u2014 Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, Willie Obiano of Anambra, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi \u2014 protested, saying they were not consulted.<\/p>\n

As reported by SaharaReporters on Monday, replacing Obi with anyone else \u201cis not an option\u201d for Atiku.
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However, the former Vice-President, who has been in the UK since Sunday, is also wary of coming across as leaving any vital interest group out of his plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe disappointment of some PDP leaders in the South-East is something I know Atiku will look at once he comes back from the UK,\u201d SaharaReporters was told on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s willing to meet with South-East PDP leaders to discuss; but the option would not be about changing Peter Obi; the option would be about discussing every other political appointment with them before announcing them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAtiku is very open to discussing with those who are aggrieved; he wants to carry everyone along, and that\u2019s the reason you\u2019ve not seen him tweet about Obi\u2019s emergence as his running mate. The campaign organization has come out to say this is the running mate, but for Atiku personally, he would have to carry everyone along, which is why he has been silent about it on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is still unclear when exactly Atiku will be back in the country, but it will be any moment from now, as Thursday is the deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for parties to submit the list of their presidential candidates and running mates.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When he returns from his current trip to the United Kingdom, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), intends to discuss the choice of Peter Obi as his running mate with the party leaders in the South-East who are unhappy with the development. After Obi, former Governor of Anambra State, was announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52834,"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],"class_list":["post-52833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52833","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=52833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}