{"id":208859,"date":"2026-02-05T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208859"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:24:23","slug":"peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208859","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi Will Contest 2027 Presidency \u2013 Pat Utomi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned political economist, Professor, Pat Utomi, has declared that former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will contest the 2027 presidential election, warning that he would withdraw his support if Obi agrees to run as a vice-presidential candidate. Utomi made the statement on Thursday during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned political economist, Professor, Pat Utomi, has declared that former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208859","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\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi.jpeg",1024,680,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi-300x199.jpeg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi-768x510.jpeg",640,425,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi.jpeg",640,425,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi.jpeg",1024,680,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi.jpeg",1024,680,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi.jpeg",1024,680,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208859-peter-obi-will-contest-2027-presidency-pat-utomi-590x410.jpeg",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\/208859","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=208859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}