{"id":11352,"date":"2018-08-11T20:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11352"},"modified":"2018-08-11T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:13:32","slug":"two-killed-in-lokoja-senator-attacked-as-bye-election-holds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11352","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in Lokoja, Senator attacked as bye-election holds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not more than 30 meteres from where he was born about three decades ago, Yadau Yahaya Umoru, met his death, all on account of pursuing the political ambition of a senior relative.<br \/>\nHe was attacked and stabbed as he snatched a ballot box. His was the second death in the House of Representatives by-election for Lokoja\/Kotonkarfe constituency of Kogi State, which held Saturday, according to the Police.<br \/>\nAnd for former Senator Smart Adeyemi, he suffered humiliation when he showed up for the election at Kotonkarfe (video below). Adeyemi, a known supporter of Governor Yahaya Bello, was susudenly rushed at and his baseball cap removed from his head and passed around.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11352-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/VID-20180811-WA0011.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/VID-20180811-WA0011.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/VID-20180811-WA0011.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\nNo reason emerged for the embarrassment, but Adeyemi is not from the federal constituency, though the area falls within the Kogi West Senatorial District he once represented in the Senate.<br \/>\nYahaya Umoru, a supporter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was allegedly stabbed to death by a supporter of another political party.<br \/>\nPandemonium broke out when some party thugs stormed a polling unit opposite the palace of the town traditional ruler, the Maigari of Lokoja.<br \/>\nAt about the same time, Umoru, known to be blue-blooded like the Maigari, allegedly snatched the box, but was attacked and allegedly stabbed in the ensuing melee. He died shortly after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not more than 30 meteres from where he was born about three decades ago, Yadau Yahaya Umoru, met his death, all on account of pursuing the political ambition of a senior relative. He was attacked and stabbed as he snatched a ballot box. His was the second death in the House of Representatives by-election for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11352","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\/11352","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=11352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}