{"id":27860,"date":"2020-07-26T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=27860"},"modified":"2020-07-26T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T15:21:20","slug":"oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike","title":{"rendered":"Oshiomhole making a u-turn \u2013 Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is making a u-turn, by presenting a candidate he previously castigated.<\/p>\n<p>Wike stated this on Saturday, during the flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign for the Edo State governorship election in Benin City, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the South-South region of the country belongs to the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Wike, who is Chairman of the PDP National Campaign Council for the election, said: \u201cFormer national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole is making a u-turn to lick his vomit by presenting a candidate he earlier rejected and castigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour years ago, Adams Oshiomhole said he cannot trust the APC governorship candidate, that he was rusticated from school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Oshiomhole is coming back to present the same person to Edo people. He thinks Edo people are fools. I challenge Edo people not to vote for any person presented to them by Oshiomhole.\u201d<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is making a u-turn, by presenting a candidate he previously castigated. Wike stated this on Saturday, during the flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign for the Edo State governorship election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[1152,376],"class_list":["post-27860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-governor-wike","tag-oshiomhole"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oshiomhole making a u-turn \u2013 Wike - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oshiomhole making a u-turn \u2013 Wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has claimed the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-26T15:21:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Nyesom-Wike1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Oshiomhole making a u-turn \u2013 Wike\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-26T15:21:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike\"},\"wordCount\":174,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Nyesom-Wike1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"governor Wike\",\"Oshiomhole\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oshiomhole-making-a-u-turn-wike\",\"name\":\"Oshiomhole making a u-turn \u2013 Wike - 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