{"id":127341,"date":"2019-06-17T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127341"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:40:05","slug":"jonathans-ally-joins-bayelsa-guber-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127341","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan\u2019s ally joins Bayelsa guber race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jonathan\u2019s-ally-joins-Bayelsa-guber-race.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chief Benson Agadaga, an associate and kinsman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has declared interest to contest the Bayelsa State governorship election slated for Nov. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Agadaga, National Chairman, Ogbia Brotherhood Worldwide, a socio-cultural group, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Yenagoa.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, his aspiration was borne out of his desire to continue to serve the people of Bayelsa at the highest level, having served as Commissioner for Information.<\/p>\n<p>Agadaga is the current Special Adviser on Establishment to Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI seize this opportunity to seek the support and blessings of the foremost socio-cultural organisation of the people of Ogbia kingdom and entire people of Bayelsa to contest in the gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in furtherance of my passion for public service in many capacities and this time, I seek the office of the governor and I appeal to the people to support my ambition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, King George Lawson, an Ogbia monarch, said he was excited over Agadaga\u2019s intention to contest as governor.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Benson Agadaga, an associate and kinsman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has declared interest to contest the Bayelsa State governorship election slated for Nov. 16. Agadaga, National Chairman, Ogbia Brotherhood Worldwide, a socio-cultural group, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Yenagoa. According to him, his aspiration was borne out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1154,4384],"class_list":["post-127341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-bayelsa","tag-gudluck-jonathan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}