{"id":920026,"date":"2022-01-27T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/27\/bamidele-asks-apc-to-cancel-ekiti-primary-election-says-it-will-be-manipulated\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:41:28","slug":"bamidele-asks-apc-to-cancel-ekiti-primary-election-says-it-will-be-manipulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/bamidele-asks-apc-to-cancel-ekiti-primary-election-says-it-will-be-manipulated\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamidele Asks APC To Cancel Ekiti Primary Election, Says It Will Be Manipulated"},"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=\"Bamidele Asks APC To Cancel Ekiti Primary Election, Says It Will Be Manipulated\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opeyemi Bamidele<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central, has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to postpone the state\u2019s primary poll set for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On January 27, the party is set to choose its standard-bearer ahead of the June governorship election, which will be held by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: Ekiti 2022: Ojudu Tasks Buni On Credible, Violence-Free APC Primaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bamidele claimed in a statement that people on the primary election committee are aides to Ekiti governor Kayode Fayemi who are working to guarantee that Biodun Oyebanji, a governorship candidate, receives the party\u2019s ticket.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The senator stated that the exercise will not be fair if the party goes ahead and conducts it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opeyemi Bamidele Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, who represents Ekiti Central, has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to postpone the state\u2019s primary poll set for Thursday. On January 27, the party is set to choose its standard-bearer ahead of the June governorship election, which will be held by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Also Read: [&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-920026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920026","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=920026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}