{"id":58753,"date":"2022-07-07T19:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=58753"},"modified":"2022-07-07T19:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:46:24","slug":"as-okupe-withdraws-university-proprietor-yusuf-baba-ahmed-is-peter-obis-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=58753","title":{"rendered":"As Okupe withdraws, University proprietor, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, is Peter Obi\u2019s running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doyin Okupe has withdrawn from being the vice presidential candidate to Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP).<\/p>\n<p>Doyin Okupe announced his withdrawal on Thursday, disclosing that he has submitted his\u00a0withdrawal letter to Obi and the Independent National Electoral Commission\u00a0(INEC).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Labour Party (LP) has finalised arrangements to unveil Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed as running mate to its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed, a former Senator and younger brother to Northern Elders Forum spokesman, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, is the proprietor of Baze University, Abuja and Baba-Ahmed University Kano.<\/p>\n<p>National Chairman of the party, Barrister Julius Abure, announced that the unveiling of Obi\u2019s running mate is slated for Friday at the party\u2019s headquarters, Abuja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doyin Okupe has withdrawn from being the vice presidential candidate to Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Doyin Okupe announced his withdrawal on Thursday, disclosing that he has submitted his\u00a0withdrawal letter to Obi and the Independent National Electoral Commission\u00a0(INEC). Meanwhile, the Labour Party (LP) has finalised arrangements to unveil Senator Yusuf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4915,1546,4916],"class_list":["post-58753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-baba-ahmed","tag-obi","tag-okupe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}