{"id":21506,"date":"2024-03-11T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/peter-obi-not-the-politician-we-need-lagos-lp-guber-candidate-vivour-rhodes\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:02:41","slug":"peter-obi-not-the-politician-we-need-lagos-lp-guber-candidate-vivour-rhodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/peter-obi-not-the-politician-we-need-lagos-lp-guber-candidate-vivour-rhodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Obi not the politician we need \u2013 Lagos LP guber candidate, Vivour-Rhodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos state for the 2023 general election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has said that the party\u2019s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is the leader Nigeria needs.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes-Vivour, speaking on the Honest Bunch Podcast, however said Obi is not the politician \u201cwe need for us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter Obi is the leader that we need for Nigeria, but not the politician we need for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes-Vivour also insisted \u201cPeter (Obi) does not buy votes. He won Lagos without buying votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obi finished in third position during last year\u2019s polls, behind President Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Rhodes-Vivour lost the gubernatorial election to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes-Vivour challenged the election result all the way to the Supreme Court, where a five-member panel in a unanimous judgment delivered in January 2024, affirmed the declaration of Sanwo-Olu as the winner of the March 18, 2023 governorship election, after dismissing two separate appeals challenging his victory.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Obi not the politician we need \u2013 Lagos LP guber candidate, Vivour-Rhodes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos state for the 2023 general election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has said that the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12112,15,990,3,12113],"tags":[164,180,794,349,249,12114],"class_list":["post-21506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lagos-lp","category-news","category-peter-obi","category-politics","category-vivour-rhodes","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-obi","tag-peter","tag-politics","tag-vivour-rhodes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}