{"id":165809,"date":"2025-07-30T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=165809"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:47:25","slug":"i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=165809","title":{"rendered":"I will contest for president in 2027 \u2013 Peter Obi shuts down VP talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GistReel<br \/>\nFormer presidential candidate and ex-Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has confirmed he will contest for Nigeria\u2019s presidency in 2027. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Sunday Politics, Obi dismissed speculations that he may run as vice-presidential candidate to Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). \u201cI\u2019m going to contest for the President of the Federal Republic \u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gistreel.com\/i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GistReel Former presidential candidate and ex-Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has confirmed he will contest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk.webp",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk-768x432.webp",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk-1024x576.webp",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk.webp",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk.webp",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk-1024x576.webp",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165809-i-will-contest-for-president-in-2027-peter-obi-shuts-down-vp-talk-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}