{"id":188418,"date":"2020-01-27T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188418"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:50:00","slug":"edo-2020-pdp-rep-member-declares-support-for-obaseki-gives-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=188418","title":{"rendered":"Edo 2020: PDP Rep member declares support for Obaseki, gives reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Few weeks after Daisy Danjuma, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT), declared support for Governor Godwin Obaseki\u2019s second term bid, another top PDP chieftain has expressed similar preference for the APC governor.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Edionwere, a member of the PDP representing Esan West, Esan Central and Igueben Federal constituency at the House of Representative, announced his support for Obaseki\u2019s re-election during an Election Victory Thanksgiving organised by Marcus Onobun, a state lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>The thanksgiving ceremony was held at St. Paul\u2019s Anglican Church, Iruekpen, Esan West Local Government Area, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Edionwere\u2019s declaration came the same day the Chairman of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, Dan Orbih, described Ebonyi Governor, David Umahi, as a mole working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) for his public endorsement of Obaseki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell you (Obaseki) to continue your good works. It does not matter how long you spend in power, it is the legacy you live behind that matters\u201d NAN quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet it be known to you that those who are with you are more than those against you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is about development and since that is what you stand for, there is no party in development; you have done roads, schools and health centres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need you to do some roads in Iruekpen, not because we will vote for you, but because you are a good man,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Onobun, who represents Esan West, won the seat on the ticket of the APC.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks after Daisy Danjuma, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT), declared support for Governor Godwin Obaseki\u2019s second term bid, another top PDP chieftain has expressed similar preference for the APC governor. Joe Edionwere, a member of the PDP representing Esan West, Esan Central and Igueben Federal constituency at the House of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188419,"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],"tags":[2658,530,533,58],"class_list":["post-188418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-edo","tag-godwin-obaseki","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188418","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=188418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}