{"id":2245,"date":"2022-12-24T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T11:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2022-12-24T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T11:24:34","slug":"2023-peter-obi-meets-with-former-president-goodluck-jonathan-in-bayelsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2022\/12\/24\/2023-peter-obi-meets-with-former-president-goodluck-jonathan-in-bayelsa\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Peter Obi Meets With Former President, Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, met with former President Goodluck Jonathan in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n<p>Obi, who was accompanied on the trip to the ex-president\u2019s residence by his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, and other party chieftains, had visited some former Nigerian leaders since he secured the LP presidential ticket in May.<\/p>\n<p>He met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the duo of former military rulers, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd), and rallied their support for his presidential aspiration.<\/p>\n<p>On his part,\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0had received the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Atiku Abubakar, at his home in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>At Friday\u2019s meeting, the former president urged the former Anambra State governor to unite Nigerians if elected as the country\u2019s president in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He also commended Obi for pursuing his ambition outside the APC and PDP, the country\u2019s two biggest political parties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e5d51f9fb2052b2ef3271aefc95a7acd\" data-index=\"3\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, met with former President Goodluck Jonathan in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Obi, who was accompanied on the trip to the ex-president\u2019s residence by his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, and other party chieftains, had visited some former Nigerian leaders since he secured the LP presidential ticket in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[490,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Peter-Obi-meets-Jonathan-in-Bayelsa.webp","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-Ad","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}