{"id":40533,"date":"2023-06-27T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=40533"},"modified":"2023-06-27T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T11:50:48","slug":"ahead-nov-imo-guber-election-athan-achonu-in-trouble-as-obidient-group-opts-for-another-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=40533","title":{"rendered":"Ahead Nov\u00a0\u00a0Imo Guber Election:\u00a0Athan Achonu In Trouble, As &#8220;Obidient&#8221; Group Opts For Another Contestant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv2609579397gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">\n<p class=\"yiv2609579397gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">These\u00a0may not be the best of times for Senator Athan Achonu, believed to be the candidate of the Labour Party for the November 11 2023 governorship election in Imo State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2609579397gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Apart from struggling with his supporters to claim the candidacy of the party, those left behind claiming to the true followers of Peter Obi, the party&#8217;s presidential candidate, known as Coalition of Obidient Movements, Imo State Chapter have jettisoned him for another candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2609579397gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Despite the shaky status of Senator Achonu as the candidate of LP following controversies surrounding court cases about leadership of the party at the national level and the decision of &#8220;Obidient Movements&#8221; to adopt another candidate for the election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2609579397gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">In the latest development, a group known as Coalition of Obidient Movements, Imo State Chapter has jettisoned Achonu and adopted candidate of the Action Alliance Party for the governorship election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2609579397gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">The decision of the group is premised on allegations that the primaries of the party that brought in Achonu was allegedly fraught with irregularities and wasn&#8217;t the choice of the people hence they have to change desire of a candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2609579397gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">This new development had further put spanner on the wheels of the desire of the politician fondly called One-Arm General to emerge the next governor of Imo State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2609579397MsoNormal\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These\u00a0may not be the best of times for Senator Athan Achonu, believed to be the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ahead Nov\u00a0\u00a0Imo Guber Election:\u00a0Athan Achonu In Trouble, As &quot;Obidient&quot; 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