{"id":188690,"date":"2025-11-08T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=188690"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:00:30","slug":"orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=188690","title":{"rendered":"Orji Kalu Declares Himself South-East\u2019s Most Important Politician, Not Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia State Governor and current Senate Majority Whip, has asserted that he is the most politically significant figure in the South-East region, strongly dismissing the notion that the title belongs to the Labour Party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate,\u00a0Peter Obi. Kalu made the claim during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s\u00a0Politics Today\u00a0on Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newswirengr.com\/2025\/10\/09\/orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia State Governor and current Senate Majority Whip, has asserted that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi.webp",650,350,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi-300x162.webp",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi.webp",640,345,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi.webp",640,345,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi.webp",650,350,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi.webp",650,350,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi.webp",650,350,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi.webp",650,350,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188690-orji-kalu-declares-himself-south-easts-most-important-politician-not-peter-obi-590x350.webp",590,350,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\/188690","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=188690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}