{"id":28847,"date":"2020-08-18T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28847"},"modified":"2020-08-18T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:34:43","slug":"i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole","title":{"rendered":"I fought godfathers for Obaseki \u2013 Oshiomhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has claimed he fought off godfathers to ensure Governor Godwin Obaseki\u2019s emergence in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>Oshiomhole stated this on Monday, while speaking with state house correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no village I go to that people do not know me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is this that I used to override the godfathers in Edo State for two consecutive terms and even got the governor elected through elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki has previously claimed Oshiomhole had no money when he contested to become Edo state governor in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has claimed he fought off godfathers to ensure Governor Godwin Obaseki\u2019s emergence in Edo State. Oshiomhole stated this on Monday, while speaking with state house correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, Abuja. \u201cThere is no village [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[694,697,376],"class_list":["post-28847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-edo-state","tag-obaseki","tag-oshiomhole"],"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>I fought godfathers for Obaseki \u2013 Oshiomhole - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has claimed he fought off godfathers to ensure\" \/>\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\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I fought godfathers for Obaseki \u2013 Oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has claimed he fought off godfathers to ensure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-18T12:34:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Oshiomhole.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"423\" \/>\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\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"I fought godfathers for Obaseki \u2013 Oshiomhole\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-18T12:34:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole\"},\"wordCount\":115,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Oshiomhole.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Edo state\",\"Obaseki\",\"Oshiomhole\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-fought-godfathers-for-obaseki-oshiomhole\",\"name\":\"I fought godfathers for Obaseki \u2013 Oshiomhole - 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