{"id":65854,"date":"2022-06-01T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T09:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba"},"modified":"2022-06-01T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T10:18:18","slug":"manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba","title":{"rendered":"Manu emerges APGA guber candidate for Taraba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The keenly contested governorship primaries of the Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has led to the emergence of Sunday Fudemure Manu, as the party\u2019s gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 504 votes cast, Manu was observed to have polled 379, defeating his opponent, Nuhu Tinyang Dan Fikyu, who scored 99 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The election, which took place in Jalingo, the State capital, last night, was noticed to have brought together the party\u2019s members from across the State.<\/p>\n<p>While announcing the results, the returning officer of the party, Nuvalga Paul Kungana said Manu emerged the winner of the election following the number of votes he scored during the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>He beckoned on the party\u2019s faithful to rally round the candidate to enable him compete favourably in the forthcoming general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Visibly elated, the party\u2019s governorship candidate, who took his time to commend the party\u2019s leadership in the State and at the national level for conducting free, fair primaries, reiterated his determination to work round the clock to justify the confidence reposed in him by the party\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking, his opponent at the just concluded primaries, promised to give the candidate all the needed support to emerge the number one citizen of the State come next political dispensation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The keenly contested governorship primaries of the Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has led to the emergence of Sunday Fudemure Manu, as the party\u2019s gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 general elections. Out of the 504 votes cast, Manu was observed to have polled 379, defeating his opponent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":65853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,131,7618,254,3685],"class_list":["post-65854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apga","tag-manu","tag-nigeria","tag-taraba"],"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>Manu emerges APGA guber candidate for Taraba - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The keenly contested governorship primaries of the Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), h ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manu emerges APGA guber candidate for Taraba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The keenly contested governorship primaries of the Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-01T09:12:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-01T10:18:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Manu emerges APGA guber candidate for Taraba\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-01T09:12:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-01T10:18:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_5.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APGA\",\"manu\",\"Nigeria\",\"taraba\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/manu-emerges-apga-guber-candidate-for-taraba\",\"name\":\"Manu emerges APGA guber candidate for Taraba - 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