{"id":193666,"date":"2025-03-16T03:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-i-will-be-sdp-flagbearer-in-2027-2023-candidate-sends-message-to-defectors\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T03:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:47:39","slug":"nigeria-i-will-be-sdp-flagbearer-in-2027-2023-candidate-sends-message-to-defectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-i-will-be-sdp-flagbearer-in-2027-2023-candidate-sends-message-to-defectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;I Will Be SDP Flagbearer in 2027&#8217; &#8211; 2023 Candidate Sends Message to Defectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Amid the defection wave to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, the party&#8217;s presidential candidate in 2023, has announced his 2027 presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Adewole, speaking on Arise Television&#8217;s &#8216;The Morning Show&#8217; on Friday, March 14, 2025, expressed confidence that, regardless of the political stature of politicians defecting to the party, he would be their presidential candidate in the next election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">When asked if he&#8217;s worried about the &#8216;heavy-weight&#8217; politicians joining the SDP,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140427.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the defection wave to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, the party&#8217;s presidential candidate in 2023, has announced his 2027 presidential ambition. Adewole, speaking on Arise Television&#8217;s &#8216;The Morning Show&#8217; on Friday, March 14, 2025, expressed confidence that, regardless of the political stature of politicians defecting to the party, he would be their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7997,24084,42368,8147,257,4687,393,25037,7281,254],"class_list":["post-193666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidate","tag-defectors","tag-flagbearer","tag-message","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sdp","tag-sends","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}