{"id":106414,"date":"2024-01-06T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila"},"modified":"2024-01-06T22:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T21:25:21","slug":"surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila","title":{"rendered":"Surulere Constituency bye-election: APC elects candidate to replace Gbajabiamila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Fuad Laguda, has been elected as a candidate for the House of Representatives by-election in Surulere Constituency 1, Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>The election, billed for February 3, 2024, will be conducted to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of the former speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, as the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Gbajabiamila, the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, resigned his membership in the House of Representatives after 20 years in the Green Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>This was following his appointment by President Bola Tinubu as his Chief of Staff in an appointment letter dated June 14.<\/p>\n<p>Gbajabiamila\u2019s resignation was announced in a letter read by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas.<\/p>\n<p>Gbajabiamila was first elected in 2003 and he remained in the parliament for 20 years until his resignation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Fuad Laguda, has been elected as a candidate for the House of Representatives by-election in Surulere Constituency 1, Lagos State. The election, billed for February 3, 2024, will be conducted to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of the former speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":106412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,34,1507,254,12354],"class_list":["post-106414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-gbajabiamila","tag-nigeria","tag-surulere-constituency-bye-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Surulere Constituency bye-election: APC elects candidate to replace Gbajabiamila - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Fuad Laguda, has been elected as a candidate for the House of Represe ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Surulere Constituency bye-election: APC elects candidate to replace Gbajabiamila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Fuad Laguda, has been elected as a candidate for the House of Represe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-06T18:55:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-06T21:25:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1704559886.291239.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1022\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"681\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Surulere Constituency bye-election: APC elects candidate to replace Gbajabiamila\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-06T18:55:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-06T21:25:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila\"},\"wordCount\":156,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1704559886.291239.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Gbajabiamila\",\"Nigeria\",\"Surulere Constituency bye-election\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/surulere-constituency-bye-election-apc-elects-candidate-to-replace-gbajabiamila\",\"name\":\"Surulere Constituency bye-election: APC elects candidate to replace Gbajabiamila - 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