{"id":131338,"date":"2024-09-19T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T09:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T11:00:39","slug":"edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election","title":{"rendered":"Edo guber: 9 political parties collapse into APC ahead of Saturday\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ahead of the 2024 governorship election coming up on Saturday, nine political parties have unanimously collapsed into the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Sam Arase, Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, announced on behalf of the Assembly of Registered Political Parties in Edo State, stating that the parties prefer the APC candidate and are confident of victory.<\/p>\n<p>The parties include the Social Democratic Party of Nigeria, SDP, Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, Allied Peoples Movement, APM, Action Democratic Party, ADP, All Peoples Party, APP, Accord, A, Young Progressive Party, YPP, Action Alliance, AA, and National Rescue Movement, NRM.<\/p>\n<p>The parties demand a violence-free election and urge Edo citizens to come out en masse and vote for APC.<\/p>\n<p>The parties mandated their members to work towards the enthronement of the APC candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, as the next governor of Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen parties are vying for the Edo State governorship, scheduled for Saturday, September 21, 2014, with a winner expected to emerge after voting procedures.<\/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. Ahead of the 2024 governorship election coming up on Saturday, nine political parties have unanimously collapsed into the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State. Chief Sam Arase, Chairman of the Edo State chapter of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, announced on behalf of the Assembly of Registered Political Parties in Edo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":131337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,12578,254],"class_list":["post-131338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-edo-guber","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: 9 political parties collapse into APC ahead of Saturday\u2019s election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ahead of the 2024 governorship election coming up on Saturday, nine political parties have unanimously collapsed into th ...\" \/>\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-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo guber: 9 political parties collapse into APC ahead of Saturday\u2019s election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ahead of the 2024 governorship election coming up on Saturday, nine political parties have unanimously collapsed into th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-19T09:54:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-19T11:00:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726730999.219694.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1086\" \/>\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-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Edo guber: 9 political parties collapse into APC ahead of Saturday\u2019s election\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-19T09:54:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-19T11:00:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726730999.219694.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Edo guber\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/edo-guber-9-political-parties-collapse-into-apc-ahead-of-saturdays-election\",\"name\":\"Edo guber: 9 political parties collapse into APC ahead of Saturday\u2019s election - 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