{"id":208404,"date":"2026-02-03T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208404"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:23:31","slug":"imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208404","title":{"rendered":"Imprisoned By Ambition: Peter Obi\u2019s Reckless Misreading of Politics and Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr Sunday Dare If the recent decamping of Peter Obi from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress was intended to detonate like a political bombshell, it failed spectacularly. What arrived instead was a dull thud unremarkable, unsurprising, and terminally familiar. Nothing more. Nothing less&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstweeklymagazine.com\/imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power-2\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr Sunday Dare If the recent decamping of Peter Obi from the Labour Party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208404","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\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power.jpg",1000,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power-300x173.jpg",300,173,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power-768x442.jpg",640,368,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power.jpg",640,369,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power.jpg",1000,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power.jpg",1000,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power.jpg",1000,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208404-imprisoned-by-ambition-peter-obis-reckless-misreading-of-politics-and-power-590x410.jpg",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\/208404","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=208404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}