{"id":67792,"date":"2022-07-03T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/im-now-enugu-labour-party-guber-candidate-chijioke-edeoga-confirms"},"modified":"2022-07-03T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:27:41","slug":"im-now-enugu-labour-party-guber-candidate-chijioke-edeoga-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-now-enugu-labour-party-guber-candidate-chijioke-edeoga-confirms","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m now Enugu Labour Party guber candidate \u2013 Chijioke Edeoga confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The immediate past commissioner for environment in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga has emerged the Labour Party governorship candidate in the State.<\/p>\n<p>Edoga, who contested the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary election, confirmed the development to DAILY POST on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the PDP primary election, he was strongly rumoured to be the aspirant to beat in the exercise, but it later went in favour of Barr. Peter Mbah.<\/p>\n<p>However, news filtered in Saturday evening that Edoga had defected to Labour Party and picked the governorship ticket.<\/p>\n<p>When our correspondent reached out to him on Sunday morning, he said, \u201cyes, it\u2019s true. I\u2019m now the Labour Party governorship candidate.\u201d<\/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 immediate past commissioner for environment in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga has emerged the Labour Party governorship candidate in the State. Edoga, who contested the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primary election, confirmed the development to DAILY POST on Sunday. Prior to the PDP primary election, he was strongly rumoured to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,7890,662,3634,254],"class_list":["post-67792","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-breaking","tag-chijioke-edeoga","tag-enugu","tag-labour-party","tag-nigeria"],"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\u2019m now Enugu Labour Party guber candidate \u2013 Chijioke Edeoga confirms - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The immediate past commissioner for environment in Enugu State, Hon. 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