{"id":26146,"date":"2020-06-12T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26146"},"modified":"2020-06-12T18:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T18:57:48","slug":"obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman","title":{"rendered":"Obaseki will be reelected as Edo governor \u2013 APC chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Anselm Ojezua, has called for calm following the disqualification of Governor Godwin Obaseki by the Primary Screening Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He declared that Obaseki has \u201cperformed well and will be reelected for a second term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party chairman spoke to journalists in Benin City after the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Ojezua said the result didn\u2019t come as a surprise as the governor had alluded to the fact that he will not get justice from the screening exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Ojezua appealed to the supporters that leadership of the party will meet on Saturday to properly respond.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI want to appeal to leaders and members of APC in Edo State to remain calm. The validity of the Screening Committee has not been established.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the committee \u2018s decision, Ojezua replied: \u201cThey didn\u2019t say Obaseki will not contest the election but that he will not contest on the platform of the APC.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-3\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-14\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Anselm Ojezua, has called for calm following the disqualification of Governor Godwin Obaseki by the Primary Screening Committee. He declared that Obaseki has \u201cperformed well and will be reelected for a second term.\u201d The party chairman spoke to journalists in Benin City after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,694],"class_list":["post-26146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-edo-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>Obaseki will be reelected as Edo governor \u2013 APC chairman - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Anselm Ojezua, has called for calm following the disqualification 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\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obaseki will be reelected as Edo governor \u2013 APC chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Anselm Ojezua, has called for calm following the disqualification of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-12T18:57:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/GODWIN-OBASEKI-e1569944914309.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"281\" \/>\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\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Obaseki will be reelected as Edo governor \u2013 APC chairman\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-12T18:57:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman\"},\"wordCount\":167,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/GODWIN-OBASEKI-e1569944914309.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Edo state\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obaseki-will-be-reelected-as-edo-governor-apc-chairman\",\"name\":\"Obaseki will be reelected as Edo governor \u2013 APC chairman - 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