{"id":25219,"date":"2020-05-17T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25219"},"modified":"2020-05-17T16:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:20:33","slug":"oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid","title":{"rendered":"Oredo councillors back Obaseki\u2019s 2nd term bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Councillors of the Oredo Local Government Council of Edo State have declared their support for the second term bid of Governor Godwin Obaseki.<\/p>\n<p>The local councillors in their declaration of support also restated their confidence in the leadership of the Chairman of the Council, Hon Jenkins Osunde.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of 11 other members of the Oredo Council\u2019s legislative arm during a solidarity visit to Osunde, the leader of the legislature, Hon Ewansiha Jeffery, expressed their admiration for Governor Obaseki and commended Osunde for complementing the governor in the Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A section of the media and members of the public have been engaged in a sensational exaggeration of recent issues of contention between the Chairman and the Councillors. The allegations ascribed to the Councillors against the Chairman were outright creation of mischief makers who intent on creating a crisis in Oredo local government area.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Chairman of the Council has demonstrated that he is on the same page with Governor Obaseki for his second term and the development he has brought to the state,\u2019 Jeffrey said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the areas of misunderstanding between them and the chairman have been cleared \u2018and the contending issues consequently resolved,\u2019 adding that the vision of Oredo\u2019s people-oriented democracy under Osunde will not be derailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Councillors of the Oredo Local Government Council of Edo State have declared their support for the second term bid of Governor Godwin Obaseki. The local councillors in their declaration of support also restated their confidence in the leadership of the Chairman of the Council, Hon Jenkins Osunde. Speaking on behalf of 11 other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[694,697],"class_list":["post-25219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-edo-state","tag-obaseki"],"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>Oredo councillors back Obaseki\u2019s 2nd term bid - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Councillors of the Oredo Local Government Council of Edo State have declared their support for the second term bid of\" \/>\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\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oredo councillors back Obaseki\u2019s 2nd term bid\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Councillors of the Oredo Local Government Council of Edo State have declared their support for the second term bid of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-17T16:20:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/obaseki-2.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"607\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\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\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\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Oredo councillors back Obaseki\u2019s 2nd term bid\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-17T16:20:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/obaseki-2.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Edo state\",\"Obaseki\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/oredo-councillors-back-obasekis-2nd-term-bid\",\"name\":\"Oredo councillors back Obaseki\u2019s 2nd term bid - 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