{"id":25828,"date":"2020-06-04T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25828"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:47:30","slug":"former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead","title":{"rendered":"Former Ondo Governor, Bamidele Olumilua is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The former governor of old Ondo State, Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua is dead.<\/p>\n<p>The elder statesman was 80-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the second civilian governor of the State passed on in the early hours of Thursday in his country home, in Ikere-Ekiti.<\/p>\n<p>A close member of the family in Ekiti State where the deceased former governor hailed from confirmed his death.<\/p>\n<p>Also, his eldest son, Muyiwa Olumilua who is currently the Ekiti State Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation confirmed the death of his father.<\/p>\n<p>The late Olomilua was the Governor of old Ondo State, Nigeria from January 1992 to November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The former governor of old Ondo State, Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua is dead. The elder statesman was 80-years-old. It was gathered that the second civilian governor of the State passed on in the early hours of Thursday in his country home, in Ikere-Ekiti. A close member of the family in Ekiti State where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[308,613],"class_list":["post-25828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ekiti","tag-ondo-state"],"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>Former Ondo Governor, Bamidele Olumilua is dead - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The former governor of old Ondo State, Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua is dead.The elder statesman was 80-years-old.\" \/>\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\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Ondo Governor, Bamidele Olumilua is dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The former governor of old Ondo State, Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua is dead.The elder statesman was 80-years-old.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-04T14:47:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Bamidele-Olumilua.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\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\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\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Former Ondo Governor, Bamidele Olumilua is dead\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-04T14:47:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead\"},\"wordCount\":114,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/Bamidele-Olumilua.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ekiti\",\"Ondo State\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead\",\"name\":\"Former Ondo Governor, Bamidele Olumilua is dead - 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