{"id":168685,"date":"2019-11-18T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168685"},"modified":"2019-11-18T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:17:10","slug":"apc-leaders-visit-jonathan-as-pdp-loses-bayelsa-election-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168685","title":{"rendered":"APC leaders visit Jonathan as PDP loses Bayelsa election [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Some leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) were at the residence of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On the delegation were Jigawa State Governor, Badaru Abubakar, Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Ita Enang, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The APC chieftains made the stop hours after the governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>It is still unclear if it was a courtesy or \u2018Thank you visit\u2019 as being suggested in some quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan reportedly fell out with Governor Seriake Dickson after the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) primaries that produced Senator Douye Diri.<\/p>\n<p>He was conspicuously absent at the candidates\u2019s campaign grand finale.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-735083\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/APC-leaders-visit-Jonathan-as-PDP-loses-Bayelsa-election-Photos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\"><\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the APC won Jonathan\u2019s LGA, Ogbia, with a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>On October 10, Jonathan and President Muhammadu Buhari held a closed-door meeting, at the Presidential Villa, a parley analysts some are linking to the governorship poll.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the APC candidate David Lyon, on his victory.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon won six Local Government Areas out of the eight in the state to defeat Diri, who won just two LGAs \u2013 Sagbama and Kolokuma\/Opokuma.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) were at the residence of former President Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa on Sunday. On the delegation were Jigawa State Governor, Badaru Abubakar, Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Ita Enang, among others. The APC chieftains made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168686,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,4384],"class_list":["post-168685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-gudluck-jonathan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168685","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=168685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}