{"id":227350,"date":"2026-03-19T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-evidence-nigerian-politician-peter-obi-is-leaving-united-opposition-party-adc\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:33:19","slug":"nigeria-no-evidence-nigerian-politician-peter-obi-is-leaving-united-opposition-party-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-evidence-nigerian-politician-peter-obi-is-leaving-united-opposition-party-adc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: No Evidence Nigerian Politician Peter Obi Is Leaving United Opposition Party ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>No evidence Nigerian politician Peter Obi is leaving united opposition party ADC<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Several posts on Facebook claim Peter Obi, who placed third in the 2023 presidential election, is set to leave the African Democratic Congress for the National Democratic Coalition. But we found no evidence for this claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/nwaformarvelousRichard\/posts\/pfbid02v7M48nnL4LYpfB9cdNFipXTDTarobnaBJYw3KMay6Ua2obrf4tWdnW51KAzKN9z1l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a> circulating on Facebook in Nigeria claims former <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NgLabour\">Labour Party<\/a> presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterObi\">Peter Obi<\/a> is set to leave the <a href=\"https:\/\/adc.org.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Democratic Congress<\/a> (ADC) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/inside-the-nigeria-democratic-congress-ndc-any-chances-in-2027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Democratic&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603190182.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>No evidence Nigerian politician Peter Obi is leaving united opposition party ADC IN SHORT: Several posts on Facebook claim Peter Obi, who placed third in the 2023 presidential election, is set to leave the African Democratic Congress for the National Democratic Coalition. But we found no evidence for this claim. A message circulating on Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227351,"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":[22947,258,256,7013,22257,257,4687,393,482,22463,5675,7024,6066,8314,254,7866],"class_list":["post-227350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-evidence","tag-leaving","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-obi","tag-opposition","tag-party","tag-peter","tag-politician","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united"],"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\/227350","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=227350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}