{"id":137060,"date":"2019-07-20T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=137060"},"modified":"2019-07-20T12:55:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T11:55:49","slug":"ajimobi-i-dont-want-to-be-minister-under-buhari-prefer-to-be-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=137060","title":{"rendered":"Ajimobi: I Don\u2019t Want To Be Minister Under Buhari, Prefer To Be Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ajimobi-I-Don\u2019t-Want-To-Be-Minister-Under-Buhari-Prefer-To-Be-Senator.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, says he prefers to be a senator in Nigeria to being a minister.<\/p>\n<p>His reasons are not farfetched.<\/p>\n<p>Fielding questions from journalists in Ibadan, the ex-governor infamous for his \u2018constituted authority\u2019 statement explained why he would want to be a federal lawmaker in the senate and not a minister under President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hold President Muhammadu Buhari in high esteem. I will actually prefer a younger person to be considered for the ministerial slot since I am pursuing my senatorial ambition,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI am in court for my senatorial election. I only expressed my preference that I am in court because I prefer the Senate.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col block-story-object block-story-object-link block-story-object-link-story\" about=\"\/2019\/05\/15\/ahead-his-exit-gov-ajimobi-names-road-after-himself\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-content-body\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"node node-story node-promoted node-sticky taxonomy-politics view-mode-embedded_link block-module block-module-small block-module-story\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-module-image block-module-image-scale-to-fit\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-background-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1563623159_430_Ajimobi-I-Don\u2019t-Want-To-Be-Minister-Under-Buhari-Prefer-To-Be-Senator.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can I be pursuing the Senate and ministerial appointment at the same time? I prefer the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ajimobi, however, pointed out that President Buhari had not offered him any ministerial appointment, noting that it was a reason he was committed to the petition the All Progressives Congress filed against Senator Kola Balogun at the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>Balogun, who contested on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was declared the winner of the Oyo South senatorial district election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, says he prefers to be a senator in Nigeria to being a minister. His reasons are not farfetched. Fielding questions from journalists in Ibadan, the ex-governor infamous for his \u2018constituted authority\u2019 statement explained why he would want to be a federal lawmaker in the senate and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137061,"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":[1,3,4],"tags":[7494,41,11056,48,8801,2136],"class_list":["post-137060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-abiola-ajimobi","tag-buhari","tag-gov-ajimobi","tag-inec","tag-minister","tag-senator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137060","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=137060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}