{"id":122791,"date":"2024-07-02T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T11:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:32:06","slug":"edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo","title":{"rendered":"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo in the forthcoming state election.<\/p>\n<p>The Party\u2019s Publicity Secretary, Sam Uruopa, who carpeted the move said, \u201cIt is absurd to hear that Obidient movement is supporting Okpebholo just the way some also said they were Obidient movement for Asue Ighodalo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Obidient movement is synonymous with the Labour Party and are integral members of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have forgotten so soon how the party was denied the use of the Sam Ogbemudia Stadium before the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, how can these people now say they are Obidient members and they are supporting Okpebholo or Ighodalo?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, they have run out of ideas and do not know what they are doing at this point. They cannot be Obidient movement and work against the party\u2019s candidate, Olumide Akpata.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cObidient\u201d movement in Edo had on Monday pledged their support for the APC and its candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that another section of the movement a few weeks ago also pledged their support for the People\u2019s Democratic Party candidate, Asue Ighodalo.<\/p>\n<p>The group, comprising members from the Edo South Senatorial District, on Monday, said they were supporting Okpebholo because of his close ties with the people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Monday Okpebholo in the forthcoming state election. The Party\u2019s Publicity Secretary, Sam Uruopa, who carpeted the move said, \u201cIt is absurd to hear that Obidient movement is supporting Okpebholo just the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":122790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,12578,3634,254],"class_list":["post-122791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-edo-guber","tag-labour-party","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 guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC ...\" \/>\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-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-02T11:08:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-02T12:32:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\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-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-02T11:08:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-02T12:32:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo\"},\"wordCount\":241,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Edo guber\",\"Labour Party\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo\",\"name\":\"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-02T11:08:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-02T12:32:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg\",\"width\":810,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo - Nigeria","description":"Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo","og_description":"Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2024-07-02T11:08:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-07-02T12:32:06+00:00","og_image":[{"width":810,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo","datePublished":"2024-07-02T11:08:25+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-02T12:32:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo"},"wordCount":241,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg","keywords":["APC","Edo guber","Labour Party","Nigeria"],"articleSection":["all news","Parties"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo","name":"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg","datePublished":"2024-07-02T11:08:25+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-02T12:32:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Edo State chapter of the Labour Party has slammed the \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement for backing the All Progressives Congress, APC ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1719910662.681428.jpg","width":810,"height":1080,"caption":"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-lp-fumes-as-obidient-movement-backs-apc-candidate-okpebholo#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Edo guber: LP fumes as \u2018Obidient\u2019 movement backs APC candidate, Okpebholo"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}