{"id":208150,"date":"2026-02-02T21:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208150"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:21:18","slug":"obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208150","title":{"rendered":"Obi&#8217;s defection no cause for alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A faction of the Labour Party loyal to Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has welcomed the defection of the party\u2019s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the African Democratic Congress, describing the development as consistent with the party\u2019s earlier position on his participation in the opposition coalition.The position was contained in a New Year message issued on Wednesday in Abuja by the Interim National Chairman of the party&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianeye.com\/2026\/01\/obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm-lp.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A faction of the Labour Party loyal to Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has welcomed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208150-obis-defection-no-cause-for-alarm.jpg",72,72,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208150","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=208150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}