{"id":16016,"date":"2019-03-10T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2019-03-10T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T20:47:15","slug":"apc-plateau-lawmaker-ezekiel-afon-dies-after-winning-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16016","title":{"rendered":"APC Plateau lawmaker Ezekiel Afon dies after winning polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Ezekiel Afon, a lawmaker representing Pengana Constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly has died hours after he was re-elected to represent the constituency.<br \/>\nMr Bashir Sati, the Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state confirmed the lawmaker\u2019s death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos.<br \/>\nAccording to Sati, Afon died Sunday afternoon after a brief illness.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is unfortunate that we lost Afon, one of the most dedicated members of our party and a committed lawmaker just after he was declared winner to occupy his seat again.<br \/>\n\u201cThough he has been sick for a while but we received the news of his demise with rude shock,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nNAN reports that Afon was first elected into the Assembly under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, but defected to the ruling APC in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Ezekiel Afon, a lawmaker representing Pengana Constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly has died hours after he was re-elected to represent the constituency. Mr Bashir Sati, the Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state confirmed the lawmaker\u2019s death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16016","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\/16016","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=16016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}