{"id":106439,"date":"2024-01-06T19:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T18:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje"},"modified":"2024-01-06T23:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T22:09:22","slug":"edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje","title":{"rendered":"Edo APC stalwart demands governorship ticket from Ganduje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The South-South organising secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Blessing Agbomhere, has asked the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, to hand him the party\u2019s governorship ticket in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>His plea was contained in a letter to Ganduje in which he claimed to be the right person to rekindle the growth former Governor Adams Oshiomhole brought to the state.<\/p>\n<p>Stressing his loyalty to the party, he wrote that in 2016, Governor Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shuaibu, were chosen over him when he ran for the APC Edo Governorship Primary.<\/p>\n<p>Agbomhere noted: \u201cIn 2017 when I contested the House of Representatives primary, another person was chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Obaseki, he said: \u201cWhen he abandoned the party, I stood with the party. I have committed my expertise, and resources to supporting the APC in Edo and across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stressing that \u201cI have worked for the party,\u201d he urged Ganduje to reward his loyalty by handing him the APC ticket for the coming governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Executive Governor, Edo State will witness the rekindling of the massive growth and development sparked by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole\u2019s administration in a new dimension,\u201d he wrote in the letter.<\/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. The South-South organising secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Blessing Agbomhere, has asked the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, to hand him the party\u2019s governorship ticket in Edo State. His plea was contained in a letter to Ganduje in which he claimed to be the right person to rekindle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":106437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,12357,1022,254],"class_list":["post-106439","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-edo-apc","tag-ganduje","tag-nigeria"],"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>Edo APC stalwart demands governorship ticket from Ganduje - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The South-South organising secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Blessing Agbomhere, has asked the National C ...\" \/>\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\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo APC stalwart demands governorship ticket from Ganduje\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The South-South organising secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Blessing Agbomhere, has asked the National C ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-01-06T18:54:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-06T22:09:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1704562546.98606.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Edo APC stalwart demands governorship ticket from Ganduje\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-06T18:54:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-06T22:09:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje\"},\"wordCount\":217,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/sm_1704562546.98606.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"edo apc\",\"Ganduje\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-apc-stalwart-demands-governorship-ticket-from-ganduje\",\"name\":\"Edo APC stalwart demands governorship ticket from Ganduje - 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