{"id":18457,"date":"2019-12-04T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=18457"},"modified":"2019-12-04T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:09:08","slug":"smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district","title":{"rendered":"Smart Adeyemi sworn in to represent Kogi West senatorial district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Smart Adeyemi representing Kogi West Senatorial District was on Wednesday sworn-in by the Clerk of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyemi took the oath of office at exactly 10.36 to replace Senator Dino Melaye who lost the election in a rerun that took place on 16th November, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Kogi West Senatorial District election inconclusive after the state elections of 16th November<\/p>\n<p>The rerun which produced Senator Smart Adeyemi was, however, concluded on 1st December in favour of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>The final result saw Senator Adeyemi polling over 88,000 votes while Senator Dino Melaye polled over 68,000 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Smart Adeyemi representing Kogi West Senatorial District was on Wednesday sworn-in by the Clerk of the Senate. Adeyemi took the oath of office at exactly 10.36 to replace Senator Dino Melaye who lost the election in a rerun that took place on 16th November, 2019. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Kogi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1053,34,251],"class_list":["post-18457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adeyemi","tag-apc","tag-inec"],"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>Smart Adeyemi sworn in to represent Kogi West senatorial district - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senator Smart Adeyemi representing Kogi West Senatorial District was on Wednesday sworn-in by the Clerk of the Senate.Adeyemi took the oath of office at\" \/>\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\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smart Adeyemi sworn in to represent Kogi West senatorial district\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senator Smart Adeyemi representing Kogi West Senatorial District was on Wednesday sworn-in by the Clerk of the Senate.Adeyemi took the oath of office at\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-04T17:09:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/smart-adeyemi.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1152\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Smart Adeyemi sworn in to represent Kogi West senatorial district\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-04T17:09:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district\"},\"wordCount\":109,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/smart-adeyemi.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adeyemi\",\"APC\",\"INEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/smart-adeyemi-sworn-in-to-represent-kogi-west-senatorial-district\",\"name\":\"Smart Adeyemi sworn in to represent Kogi West senatorial district - 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