{"id":146634,"date":"2019-08-25T19:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=146634"},"modified":"2019-08-25T19:24:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:24:20","slug":"smart-adeyemi-vs-dino-melaye-people-know-difference-between-us-says-adeyemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=146634","title":{"rendered":"Smart Adeyemi Vs Dino Melaye: People Know Difference Between Us, Says Adeyemi"},"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\/08\/Smart-Adeyemi-Vs-Dino-Melaye-People-Know-Difference-Between-Us-Says-Adeyemi.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>Smart Adeyemi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Kogi West senatorial district election, says his party is not afraid of a rerun.<\/p>\n<p>He said this while commending the judgment of the election petitions tribunal that sacked the lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Anthony Chijioke-led panel of the  Kogi State election petitions tribunal had ordered a fresh election in the senatorial district.<\/p>\n<p>In his reaction, Senator Adeyemi noted that as a student of law, he had always believed that the court is where those who have been cheated get justice.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that he would reclaim his mandate in the rerun ordered by the tribunal, stressing that he has built the image to win the election over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time senator compared himself to Melaye who contested the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe are not afraid to go for a rerun because the people can assess the two personalities. They know our antecedents, they know our track records, they know who we are and what we stand for.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Adeyemi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Kogi West senatorial district election, says his party is not afraid of a rerun. He said this while commending the judgment of the election petitions tribunal that sacked the lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye. Justice Anthony Chijioke-led panel of the Kogi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146635,"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":[495,499,12599],"class_list":["post-146634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-dino-melaye","tag-kogi","tag-smart-adeyemi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146634","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=146634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}