{"id":27600,"date":"2020-07-20T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=27600"},"modified":"2020-07-20T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:00:10","slug":"odimayo-one-other-aspirant-step-down-for-akeredolu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/odimayo-one-other-aspirant-step-down-for-akeredolu","title":{"rendered":"Odimayo, one other aspirant step down for Akeredolu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Minutes to the commencement of the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ondo State, two other aspirants have dropped their ambition.<\/p>\n<p>The two aspirants, Jimi Odimayo and Nathaniel Adojutelegan who withdrew from the race, were said to have declared support for Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Segun Abraham also withdrew from the race.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham, who came second during the 2016 primaries which Akeredolu won was one of the top contenders for party\u2019s ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The duo of Odimayo and Atojutelegan were entering the political terrain for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that their decision was hinged on the unity of the party and its success at the October 10, 2020 governorship election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Minutes to the commencement of the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ondo State, two other aspirants have dropped their ambition. The two aspirants, Jimi Odimayo and Nathaniel Adojutelegan who withdrew from the race, were said to have declared support for Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. Earlier, Segun Abraham also withdrew from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":27601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,1519],"class_list":["post-27600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-odimayo"],"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>Odimayo, one other aspirant step down for Akeredolu - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/odimayo-one-other-aspirant-step-down-for-akeredolu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Odimayo, one other aspirant step down for Akeredolu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria: Minutes to the commencement of the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ondo State, two other aspirants have dropped their ambition. 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