{"id":131862,"date":"2024-09-24T08:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole"},"modified":"2024-09-24T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:57:16","slug":"obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole","title":{"rendered":"Obaseki is politically dead \u2013 Oshiomhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor and Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that the outgoing Governor Godwin Obaseki is politically dead.<\/p>\n<p>Oshiomhole made this statement during an interview on Channels TV\u2019s programme, Politics Today, while commenting on the outcome of the just concluded governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Sunday declared Monday Okpebholo of the APC as the winner of the election.<\/p>\n<p>However, during the interview, Oshiomole said the outcome of the election represented the will of Edo people.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the comments trailing the declaration of the APC candidate as the winner of the election, Oshiomhole said Edo people would not sacrifice their blood for anybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe subscribe to President Jonathan\u2019s school which says the election of even a president is not worth the blood of any Nigerian. And you have the PDP national chairman who is acting with all the crises around the status talking about bloodbath for election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have Obaseki, I watched him on Channels insisting it was do-or-die. And when you asked him, he said, if they did, then they would be dead. Now the people have done it. I guess he is politically dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people have decided that Monday, who was elected last year as a senator, has been elected; and now has been declared the governor-elect,\u201d he said.<\/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. Former Governor and Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that the outgoing Governor Godwin Obaseki is politically dead. Oshiomhole made this statement during an interview on Channels TV\u2019s programme, Politics Today, while commenting on the outcome of the just concluded governorship election in the state. Recall that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":131861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[254,697,376],"class_list":["post-131862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-nigeria","tag-obaseki","tag-oshiomhole"],"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>Obaseki is politically dead \u2013 Oshiomhole - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Governor and Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that the outgoing Gov ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obaseki is politically dead \u2013 Oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Governor and Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that the outgoing Gov ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-24T07:54:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-24T08:57:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1727155616.416254.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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Obaseki is politically dead \u2013 Oshiomhole\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-24T07:54:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-24T08:57:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1727155616.416254.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Obaseki\",\"Oshiomhole\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/obaseki-is-politically-dead-oshiomhole\",\"name\":\"Obaseki is politically dead \u2013 Oshiomhole - 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