{"id":196443,"date":"2025-04-20T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dubai-taiwan-campaign-soludo-to-suffer-electoral-disgrace-obidike\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T17:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T15:57:35","slug":"nigeria-dubai-taiwan-campaign-soludo-to-suffer-electoral-disgrace-obidike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dubai-taiwan-campaign-soludo-to-suffer-electoral-disgrace-obidike\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Dubai-Taiwan Campaign &#8211; Soludo to Suffer Electoral Disgrace &#8211; Obidike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The much-touted &#8220;African-Dubai-Taiwan&#8221; campaign mantra of Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has been described as one of the biggest election campaign scams in Nigeria&#8217;s political history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Soludo, who first contested the governorship in 2010 under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and later won in 2021 under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), had pledged to transform Anambra into the &#8220;Dubai-Taiwan-Silicon Valley of Africa.&#8221; However, as the November 8 gubernatorial election&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180313.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>The much-touted &#8220;African-Dubai-Taiwan&#8221; campaign mantra of Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has been described as one of the biggest election campaign scams in Nigeria&#8217;s political history. Soludo, who first contested the governorship in 2010 under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and later won in 2021 under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), had pledged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196444,"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":[258,256,4302,4293,51176,7239,257,4687,393,42432,38751,254,6584],"class_list":["post-196443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaign","tag-disgrace","tag-dubaitaiwan","tag-electoral","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obidike","tag-soludo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffer"],"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\/196443","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=196443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}