{"id":208355,"date":"2026-02-03T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208355"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:23:33","slug":"utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208355","title":{"rendered":"Utomi: I\u2019ll Withdraw Support If Obi Accepts VP Ticket in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, has said he will withdraw his support for Peter Obi if the former Anambra State governor accepts a vice-presidential candidacy in the 2027 general elections. Utomi made the statement on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, has said he will withdraw his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027-300x213.jpg",300,213,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208355-utomi-ill-withdraw-support-if-obi-accepts-vp-ticket-in-2027.jpg",480,340,false]},"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\/208355","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=208355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}