{"id":30221,"date":"2020-09-22T17:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30221"},"modified":"2020-09-22T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:52:21","slug":"inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki","title":{"rendered":"INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Obaseki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented a certificate of return to Governor Godwin Obaseki, winner of the just concluded Edo State governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>INEC presented the certificate to Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki polled 307,955 votes across the 18 local government areas of the state to defeat All Progressives Congress candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who scored 223,619 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The APC conceded defeat at the poll and congratulated Obaseki following a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, describing the outcome of the election as a victory for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented a certificate of return to Governor Godwin Obaseki, winner of the just concluded Edo State governorship election. INEC presented the certificate to Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, on Tuesday. Obaseki polled 307,955 votes across the 18 local government areas of the state to defeat All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":19175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,251,697],"class_list":["post-30221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-inec","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>INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Obaseki - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented a certificate of return to Governor Godwin Obaseki,\" \/>\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\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Obaseki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented a certificate of return to Governor Godwin Obaseki,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-22T17:52:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Mr-Godwin-Obaseki.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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<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\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Obaseki\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-22T17:52:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki\"},\"wordCount\":97,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Mr-Godwin-Obaseki.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"INEC\",\"Obaseki\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-presents-certificate-of-return-to-obaseki\",\"name\":\"INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Obaseki - 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