{"id":150704,"date":"2019-09-09T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150704"},"modified":"2019-09-09T20:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:36:58","slug":"kogi-guber-yahaya-bello-dumps-deputy-governor-picks-edward-onoja-as-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150704","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Guber: Yahaya Bello dumps Deputy Governor, picks Edward Onoja as running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kogi-Government-speaks-on-herdsmen-attack-in-motor-park.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello, has picked his Chief of Staff, Edward Onoja, as his running mate for the November 16 governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>This comes months after he had a public fallout with his Deputy, Simon Achuba.<\/p>\n<p>Bello submitted Onoja\u2019s name to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), during his trip to Abuja last week.<\/p>\n<p>One of his aides confirmed this development to DAILY POST in a brief exchange of messages.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the Governor had picked Onoja, he simply replied: \u201cYes\u201d, before providing a link to one of the social media pages of the Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n<p>Bello emerged as the APC\u2019s flagbearer almost two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>He won the primary conducted in Lokoja, the state capital on Thursday by 3,127 votes.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 3,596 delegates were accredited.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello, has picked his Chief of Staff, Edward Onoja, as his running mate for the November 16 governorship election. This comes months after he had a public fallout with his Deputy, Simon Achuba. Bello submitted Onoja\u2019s name to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), during his trip to Abuja [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143405,"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":[496,499,506],"class_list":["post-150704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-edward-onoja","tag-kogi","tag-yahaya-bello"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150704","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=150704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}