{"id":26830,"date":"2020-06-25T20:19:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26830"},"modified":"2020-06-25T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T19:19:48","slug":"abiola-ajimobi-former-oyo-governor-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26830","title":{"rendered":"Abiola Ajimobi, former Oyo Governor, is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0Abiola Ajimobi, <\/b>a former Nigerian senator who finished his second term as Oyo State governor last year, has died.<br \/>\nMr Ajimobi died on Thursday at a private hospital in Lagos after spending weeks in intensive care for coronavirus complications, according to Akin Alabi, a federal lawmaker and political associate of the former governor\u2019s. He was 70.<br \/>\nWhile confirming the development to PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Alabi said he was shocked by the death.<br \/>\nMr Ajimobi\u2019s passing came a week after he was\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/398404-ajimobi-is-alive-spokesperson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumoured to have died<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at the same private hospital. That rumour turned to be false.<br \/>\nHe was first hospitalised in early June after contracting the deadly virus that has now sickened millions and claimed nearly 500,000 lives across the world.<br \/>\nMr Ajimobi was a senator from 2003 to 2007. After unsuccessful attempts, he was ultimately elected governor in 2011 and re-elected in 2015, becoming the first Oyo State governor to serve two terms.<br \/>\nHe was survived by his wife and children.<br \/>\n* Report by <strong>Premium Times<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Abiola Ajimobi, a former Nigerian senator who finished his second term as Oyo State governor last year, has died. Mr Ajimobi died on Thursday at a private hospital in Lagos after spending weeks in intensive care for coronavirus complications, according to Akin Alabi, a federal lawmaker and political associate of the former governor\u2019s. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[1721,1180,1753],"class_list":["post-26830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-ajimobi","tag-covid-19","tag-dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26830","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=26830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}