{"id":169698,"date":"2019-11-22T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169698"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:33:36","slug":"pastor-slumps-dies-after-defecting-to-apc-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169698","title":{"rendered":"Pastor slumps, dies after defecting to APC in Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pastor-slumps-dies-after-defecting-to-APC-in-Edo.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A cleric identified as Pastor Aimola John has reportedly slumped and died.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Nation, Pastor John slumped shortly after joining Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Aimola was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of Owan East, Mr. Godwin Imoudu confirming his death, said late Aimola was in Benin to defect to the APC when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p>He was said to have been a former chairmanship candidate for Owan East Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state had expelled its former governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.<\/p>\n<p>Ize-Iyamu was expelled following his refusal to confirm or refute his rumoured defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>He was expelled from participating in any PDP related activities with immediate effect.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cleric identified as Pastor Aimola John has reportedly slumped and died. According to the Nation, Pastor John slumped shortly after joining Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Aimola was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. Former Secretary of Owan East, Mr. Godwin Imoudu confirming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169699,"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":[2658,530,6335],"class_list":["post-169698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-edo","tag-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169698","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=169698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}