{"id":11188,"date":"2018-08-04T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11188"},"modified":"2018-08-04T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:23:05","slug":"gombe-governor-dankwambo-declares-for-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11188","title":{"rendered":"Gombe Governor Dankwambo, Declares For Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Channels Television.<\/strong><br \/>\nGombe State Governor Hassan Dankwambo has declared his intention to contest the presidential election in 2019.<br \/>\nHe made the declaration on Saturday at a consultation meeting with officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the North East region of the country.<br \/>\nGovernor Dankwambo also reacted to the recent defection of the Senate President and three governors of the All Progressives Party (APC), as well as some members of the National Assembly to the opposition party.<br \/>\nHe noted that the\u00a0defection was a reflection of the fact that the PDP has been reformed\u00a0and repositioned, and urged existing members to\u00a0welcome the new ones.<br \/>\n\u201cAll defectors should be accepted with an open heart and be given an equal opportunity as others who have been in the party\u201d.<br \/>\nThe governor was of the opinion that the next president should come from the North-eastern part of the country.<br \/>\nHe also advised all interested candidates from the zone should be allowed to showcase themselves\u00a0while the most qualified should emerge.<br \/>\nThe meeting was attended by the PDP North East Zonal chairman and the party\u2019s National Deputy Chairman (North East) among\u00a0other leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Channels Television. Gombe State Governor Hassan Dankwambo has declared his intention to contest the presidential election in 2019. He made the declaration on Saturday at a consultation meeting with officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the North East region of the country. Governor Dankwambo also reacted to the recent defection of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}