{"id":6164,"date":"2025-05-19T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2025-05-19T14:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:35:25","slug":"2027-obi-reacts-to-speculation-that-he-has-accepted-to-be-atikus-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/2027-obi-reacts-to-speculation-that-he-has-accepted-to-be-atikus-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Obi reacts to speculation that he has accepted to be Atiku&#8217;s running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6165\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-1-1-300x161.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-1-1-300x161.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/download-1-1.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Atiku and Obi<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Publisher<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Kindly Share:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of\u00a0 Labour Party in the last presidential election, has reacted to the report about his purported agreement to run as the running mate to Atiku Abubakar, the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>former Vice President,\u00a0 in the 2027 presidential contest.<\/p>\n<p>Obi, who spoke when he made a donation to a school and hospital project run by the Anglican Church, in Kubwa, Abuja, tacitly responded to the speculation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The media has been awash with reports, suggesting that Atiku had during a private meeting between both men in the United Kingdom earlier this year offered Obi the vice president slot in a joint ticket, promising to serve only one term, which he was willing to formalise in writing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sources privy to the discussions pleaded anonymity but claimed that Obi, who was not averse to the idea, asked to be given time to consult his foot soldiers before going public with the deal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the former Anambra governor said when asked about the purported agreement at the public event, said: \u201cYou can make of the report what you want, but I\u2019m in a coalition against bad governance, hunger, and poverty.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku and Obi By Publisher Kindly Share: Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of\u00a0 Labour Party in the last presidential election,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[667,155],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-peter-obi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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