{"id":73981,"date":"2018-12-29T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73981"},"modified":"2018-12-29T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T14:01:11","slug":"apc-vs-pdp-plateau-guber-candidate-useni-denies-working-against-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73981","title":{"rendered":"APC vs PDP: Plateau guber candidate, Useni denies working against Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jeremiah_Useni_472360456.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The gubernatorial candidate of the main opposition PDP in Plateau State, Senator Jeremiah Useni has denied rumour making rounds that he is not working for the victory of the party\u2019s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, describing it as \u201cbaseless, malicious and false \u2013 all aimed at dividing the party\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Useni stated this during a crucial meeting with the party\u2019s leadership held at the PDP secretariat with all candidates for the Senate, House of Representatives and House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee, of the party\u2019s state campaign council, Abraham Yiljap, told journalists after the meeting that Useni is working to ensure that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar wins the election in Plateau.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201d The rumour that Senator Jeremiah Useni is working at cross purposes with the PDP Presidential Candidate is baseless, malicious and false; all aimed at dividing the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUseni can never work for the candidate of another party aside the PDP\u201d, he maintained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victories of PDP Presidential, Gubernatorial, National Assembly and State Assembly Candidates in the 2019 General Elections are settled,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n<p>Useni harped on the need for teamwork, being more strategic, penetrating the nooks and crannies of the State, stressing that he is ready to contain the incumbent in all ramifications for resounding victory to bring the people of the State out of their present \u201charsh and unfriendly\u201d predicament.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gubernatorial candidate of the main opposition PDP in Plateau State, Senator Jeremiah Useni has denied rumour making rounds that he is not working for the victory of the party\u2019s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, describing it as \u201cbaseless, malicious and false \u2013 all aimed at dividing the party\u201d. Useni stated this during a crucial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17312,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,4148,9439,58,344,62,9440],"class_list":["post-73981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-atiku","tag-guber-candidate","tag-pdp","tag-plateau","tag-politics","tag-useni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73981","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=73981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}