{"id":25935,"date":"2020-06-07T18:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25935"},"modified":"2020-06-07T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:40:37","slug":"edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole","title":{"rendered":"Edo Deputy Gov challenges Oshiomhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has been asked to challenge Governor Godwin Obaseki in an open debate on moral uprightness and service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The same challenge was also thrown at Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and other governorship aspirants of the APC in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy governor of the state, Philip Shaibu threw this challenge in a statement on Sunday, ahead the party\u2019s June 22, primaries.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement in Benin through his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Benjamin Ati, he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am throwing an open invitation to anyone who has the moral standing of Godwin Obaseki to come out and defend their statements in an open debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nature of a political system is a factor that usually conditions the expectation and behaviour of political actors\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has been asked to challenge Governor Godwin Obaseki in an open debate on moral uprightness and service delivery. The same challenge was also thrown at Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and other governorship aspirants of the APC in Edo State. The deputy governor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[34,694,697],"class_list":["post-25935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-apc","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>Edo Deputy Gov challenges Oshiomhole - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has been asked to challenge Governor Godwin Obaseki in\" \/>\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\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo Deputy Gov challenges Oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has been asked to challenge Governor Godwin Obaseki in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-07T18:40:37+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\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Edo Deputy Gov challenges Oshiomhole\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-07T18:40:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/obaseki-2.png\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Edo state\",\"Obaseki\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-deputy-gov-challenges-oshiomhole\",\"name\":\"Edo Deputy Gov challenges Oshiomhole - 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