{"id":63486,"date":"2023-04-14T08:15:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=63486"},"modified":"2023-04-14T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:15:37","slug":"kogi-decision-day-for-apc-guber-ticket-as-deputy-governor-others-back-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=63486","title":{"rendered":"Kogi: Decision day for APC guber ticket as Deputy Governor, others back down"},"content":{"rendered":"
The race for the Lugard House, the Kogi State Governor’s seat, on Thursday took an unexpected turn, when the state’s number two citizen, Deputy Governor Edward Onoja, backed out of the race for the anointed choice of Governor Yahaya Bello.<\/div>\n
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The state\u2019s Auditor-General, Ahmed Usman-Ododo, is the governor’s choice for the APC ticket for November’s governorship election.<\/p>\n

Onoja was seen as one of the prominent contenders for the office from the Kogi East Senatorial District, but now that he has stepped down from the race with seven others, it is now a straight fight between Ododo; APC’s DeputyNational Publicity Secretary, Mr. Murtala Ajaka, Senator Smart Adeyemi,\u00a0 Prince Shauibu Abubakar Audu, Idachaba Friday, Abubakar Yahaya Achimugu, Senator Yakubu Oseni and former Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Professor Stephen Ikani Ocheni.<\/p>\n

The APC’s governorship primary election holds this Friday.<\/p>\n

Others who stepped down are\u00a0 former Commissioner for Finance, Mr David Adebanji-Jimoh, Asiwaju Ashiru Idris and Mr Okala Yakubu,\u00a0 Mr Abdulkareem Asuku, Chief of Staff to Gov. Bello and the state\u2019s Accountant-General, Mr Momoh Jibrin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chairman of the primary election committee, Gov. Mohammed Bello-Matawale of Zamfara confirmed the development after Thursday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll other aspirants who have not withdrawn from the race are free to participate in Friday\u2019s direct primary election to be held across the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe gentlemanly agreement was reached and announced at a stakeholders meeting of the party held on Thursday in Lokoja,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The race for the Lugard House, the Kogi State Governor’s seat, on Thursday took an unexpected turn, when the state’s number two citizen, Deputy Governor Edward Onoja, backed out of the race for the anointed choice of Governor Yahaya Bello. The state\u2019s Auditor-General, Ahmed Usman-Ododo, is the governor’s choice for the APC ticket for November’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[759,59,1483],"class_list":["post-63486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-bello","tag-kogi","tag-onoja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63486","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=63486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}