{"id":914477,"date":"2022-01-08T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/lets-have-direct-primary-for-ekiti-opeyemi-bamidele-tells-bunis-cecpc\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:03:04","slug":"lets-have-direct-primary-for-ekiti-opeyemi-bamidele-tells-bunis-cecpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/lets-have-direct-primary-for-ekiti-opeyemi-bamidele-tells-bunis-cecpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Have Direct Primary For Ekiti, Opeyemi Bamidele Tells Buni\u2019s CECPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_835527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835527\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-835527 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Opeyemi-Bamidele.jpg\" alt=\" Let\u2019s Have Direct Primary For Ekiti, Opeyemi Bamidele Tells Buni\u2019s CECPC\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opeyemi Bamidele<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, an aspirant for governor of Ekiti State under the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary on January 22, has urged the party\u2019s Caretaker\/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) to employ the direct mode of election for the party\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p>Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the Senate, made the appeal on Friday, immediately after filing his expression of interest and nomination forms at the party\u2019s national secretariat in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Nomination, Expression Of Interest Forms For Ekiti, Osun Polls Cost N22.5m \u2013 APC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The governorship candidate claimed that a direct primary would provide all party members a sense of belonging in electing who would run for the party\u2019s governorship ticket.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, stated that he was prepared for any of the three modes approved by the party\u2019s constitution but insisted that consensus mode was no-go area for the party at the January 22 party primary in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opeyemi Bamidele Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, an aspirant for governor of Ekiti State under the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary on January 22, has urged the party\u2019s Caretaker\/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) to employ the direct mode of election for the party\u2019s primary. Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the Senate, made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}