{"id":20890,"date":"2018-09-03T17:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=20890"},"modified":"2018-09-03T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:28:55","slug":"guber-njoku-achonu-ekomaru-increase-battle-for-pdp-guber-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=20890","title":{"rendered":"Guber:  Njoku, Achonu, Ekomaru Increase Battle For PDP Guber Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=20907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20907\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PDP-logo.jpg\" alt=\"PDP-logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PDP-logo.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/PDP-logo-300x203.jpg 300w, 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