{"id":173635,"date":"2025-08-12T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-i-dont-know-if-id-support-peter-obi"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:01:16","slug":"2027-i-dont-know-if-id-support-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-i-dont-know-if-id-support-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"2027 I Don\u2019t Know If I\u2019d Support Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has declared that he does not know if he would support Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>This was as the ex-SGF stressed that things have changed.<\/p>\n<p>Lawal stated this while answering questions in an interview on the Monday edition of \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>He was in Peter Obi\u2019s corner ahead of the 2023 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say a day in politics is long. Things have changed. The parameters we used to evaluate our candidate in 2023 are going to be different this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings have moved on, so we\u2019ll see when we get there. We\u2019ll see how it goes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has declared that he does not know if he would support Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections. This was as the ex-SGF stressed that things have changed. 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