{"id":5395,"date":"2019-02-26T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:24:09","slug":"nigeria-election-result-akpabio-loses-seat-to-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-election-result-akpabio-loses-seat-to-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria election result: Akpabio loses seat to PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has lost his bid for re-election into the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced on Tuesday afternoon by the Returning Officer, Prof Peter Ogban, at INEC office in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial district, lost to Chris Ekpenyong of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).<\/p>\n<p>He polled 83,158 while Chris polled 118,215 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has lost his bid for re-election into the Senate. This was announced on Tuesday afternoon by the Returning Officer, Prof Peter Ogban, at INEC office in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Akpabio, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial district, lost to Chris Ekpenyong of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16],"tags":[34,38,65,211],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-election","tag-pdp","tag-vote"],"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>Nigeria election result: Akpabio loses seat to PDP - 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\/nigeria-election-result-akpabio-loses-seat-to-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria election result: Akpabio loses seat to PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has lost his bid for re-election into the Senate. 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