{"id":153981,"date":"2025-03-04T23:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate"},"modified":"2025-03-10T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:08:19","slug":"ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate","title":{"rendered":"Ondo: NNPP suspends governorship candidate, running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has suspended its canditate in the November 16, 2024 governorship election in Ondo State, Olugbenga Edema, and his running mate, Rotimi Adeyemi.<\/p>\n<p>Edema and Adeyemi were suspended indefinitely along with a chieftain of the party, Isreal Ayeni, during the party\u2019s State Working Committee (SWC) in Akure, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NNPP chairman in the state, Pastor Peter Olagookun, the suspension followed their purported involvement in anti-party activities as well as violation of the constitution of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Olagookun further stressed that the Edema took the party to court without exhausting the party\u2019s internal resolution mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the party hinged the SWC decision on, \u201cSuing in the name of the party without recourse to the appropriate stakeholders at both the state and national levels according to our party constitution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuing the party without exhausting the internal resolution mechanism as provided by the party\u2019s constitution and involving oneself in anti-party activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has suspended its canditate in the November 16, 2024 governorship election in Ondo State, Olugbenga Edema, and his running mate, Rotimi Adeyemi. Edema and Adeyemi were suspended indefinitely along with a chieftain of the party, Isreal Ayeni, during the party\u2019s State Working Committee (SWC) in Akure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":153980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,2540,339],"class_list":["post-153981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpp","tag-ondo"],"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>Ondo: NNPP suspends governorship candidate, running mate - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has suspended its canditate in the November 16, 2024 governorship election in Ondo ...\" \/>\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\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ondo: NNPP suspends governorship candidate, running mate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has suspended its canditate in the November 16, 2024 governorship election in Ondo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-04T22:20:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-10T22:08:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741117976.000566.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\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\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ondo: NNPP suspends governorship candidate, running mate\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-04T22:20:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-10T22:08:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate\"},\"wordCount\":179,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741117976.000566.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"NNPP\",\"Ondo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ondo-nnpp-suspends-governorship-candidate-running-mate\",\"name\":\"Ondo: NNPP suspends governorship candidate, running mate - 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