{"id":26827,"date":"2020-07-01T14:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26827"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:20:33","slug":"pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race","title":{"rendered":"PDP aspirant withdraws from race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant, Mr. John Ola-Mafo, has withdrawn from the Ondo State Governorship election scheduled for 10 October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ola-Mafo made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday in Okitipupa.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, his exit from the contest is predicated on circumstances beyond his control.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked supporters across the state who believed in his vision and who contributed towards actualizing his dream, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWith a great sense of responsibility and unbroken faith in the future of Ondo State, I announce my formal withdrawal from the governorship race, having been an aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>\u201cMy exit from the contest is predicated on circumstances beyond my control as history is my witness as I withdraw from the governorship race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the activities of the present administration and disposition of the people, it is clear that the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has failed to meet the expectations of the people.\u201d He said<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-3\"><\/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: A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant, Mr. John Ola-Mafo, has withdrawn from the Ondo State Governorship election scheduled for 10 October 2020. Ola-Mafo made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday in Okitipupa. According to him, his exit from the contest is predicated on circumstances beyond his control. He also thanked supporters across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[613,65],"class_list":["post-26827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-ondo-state","tag-pdp"],"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>PDP aspirant withdraws from race - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant, Mr. John Ola-Mafo, has withdrawn from the Ondo State Governorship election\" \/>\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\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP aspirant withdraws from race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant, Mr. John Ola-Mafo, has withdrawn from the Ondo State Governorship election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-01T14:20:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-07-01T14:20:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/pdpdp.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"225\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"225\" \/>\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\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"PDP aspirant withdraws from race\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-01T14:20:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-01T14:20:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race\"},\"wordCount\":175,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/pdpdp.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ondo State\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-aspirant-withdraws-from-race\",\"name\":\"PDP aspirant withdraws from race - 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