{"id":1186,"date":"2022-05-28T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com.ng\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2022-05-28T22:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T22:55:38","slug":"atiku-floors-wike-to-win-pdp-presidential-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/atiku-floors-wike-to-win-pdp-presidential-primary-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Floors Wike To Win PDP Presidential Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\" — Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been elected as the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s flagbearer for the 2023 presidential election.
It will be the 75-year-old\u2019s sixth attempt for the nation\u2019s top job.
He was also the PDP\u2019s candidate in the last election in 2019, which he lost to President Muhammadu Buhari.
To win the PDP\u2019s 2023 ticket, Atiku had to beat the likes of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
Before voting commenced on Friday at the primary election in Abuja, Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal stepped down for Atiku, a move that strengthened the Adamawa politician\u2019s bid for the ticket.
Mr Atiku scored 371 votes. His closest challenger, Wike, polled 237 votes. Saraki pulled 70 votes.
Emmanuel (38), Mohammed (38), Anyim Pius Anyim (14), Mrs Tari Diana Oliver (1) and Sam Ohuabunwa (1) shared the remainder of the valid votes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}