{"id":30759,"date":"2020-10-05T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30759"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:51:50","slug":"jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal","title":{"rendered":"Jegede will defeat Akeredolu \u2013 Tambuwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 Forum has expressed confidence that Eyitayo Jegede will emerge victorious in Saturday\u2019s Ondo governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Jegede is up against Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Forum and Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, spoke on Sunday through the body\u2019s Director-General, C.I.D. Maduabum.<\/p>\n<p>Maduabum quoted Tambuwal as saying PDP governors were united in ensuring that Jegede becomes the next Ondo helmsman.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Senior Advocate of Nigeria\u2019s experience, dynamism and programmes will return the State to glory days.<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal condemned those suggesting that PDP governors were not supporting Jegede.<\/p>\n<p>He called them fifth columnists afraid of the popularity of the party\u2019s candidate and triumph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing can stop the march of progress in Ondo. Jegede\u2019s victory is one whose time has come. The Forum speaks with one voice and this naked attempt to sow division and discord within its ranks has failed miserably.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 Forum has expressed confidence that Eyitayo Jegede will emerge victorious in Saturday\u2019s Ondo governorship election. Jegede is up against Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the Forum and Sokoto Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, spoke on Sunday through the body\u2019s Director-General, C.I.D. Maduabum. Maduabum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":7686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[614],"class_list":["post-30759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-tambuwal"],"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>Jegede will defeat Akeredolu \u2013 Tambuwal - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 Forum has expressed confidence that Eyitayo Jegede will emerge\" \/>\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\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jegede will defeat Akeredolu \u2013 Tambuwal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 Forum has expressed confidence that Eyitayo Jegede will emerge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-05T15:51:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/tambuwal.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"526\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"421\" \/>\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\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Jegede will defeat Akeredolu \u2013 Tambuwal\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-05T15:51:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/tambuwal.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Tambuwal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/jegede-will-defeat-akeredolu-tambuwal\",\"name\":\"Jegede will defeat Akeredolu \u2013 Tambuwal - 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