{"id":225063,"date":"2020-06-10T17:17:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=225063"},"modified":"2020-06-10T17:17:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:17:51","slug":"breaking-edo-election-university-of-ibadan-confirms-obasekis-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=225063","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Edo Election: University of Ibadan confirms Obaseki\u2019s certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">University of Ibadan (UI) has confirmed that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, graduated from the institution.<\/p>\n<p>The Registrar, Mrs Olubunmi Faluyi, made the confirmation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement she signed noted that \u201cMr Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State graduated from the University of Ibadan where he studied Classics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school said the governor gained admission to the University in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>UI confirmed that he graduated in 1979 with a Second Class Honours, Lower Division.<\/p>\n<p>The statement assured that records of his admission and graduation \u201care intact in the archives of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had suggested that Obaseki\u2019s certificate was questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as the Edo governorship election hots up, the Vice Chairman of Ovia North East Local Government Area, Mrs Maureen Ekharagbon, has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Her decision was contained in a letter dated June 10.<\/p>\n<p>Insiders say she left after consultations on the forthcoming governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Ekharagbon explained that she resigned on grounds of administrative, governance and politics.<\/p>\n<p>She copied Obaseki, the Local Government Service Commission and the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Ekharagbon said her step-down was because politics and governance \u201care inextricably connected\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She thanked Obaseki for the opportunity to serve as well as the Chairman of the Council, Scott Ogbemudia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful to the people of Ovia North East Local Government at large and the leadership of the APC under which platform I was elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ekharagbon is the third official to stand down in the past six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Late April, Taiwo Akerele resigned as Chief of Staff to Obaseki.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Commissioner for Information, Paul Ohonbamu, Obaseki\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that more officials were planning to resign before the June 22 APC governorship primaries.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Ibadan (UI) has confirmed that Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, graduated from the institution. The Registrar, Mrs Olubunmi Faluyi, made the confirmation on Wednesday. A statement she signed noted that \u201cMr Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State graduated from the University of Ibadan where he studied Classics.\u201d The school said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225064,"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":[2828,3],"tags":[29,530,533,12018],"class_list":["post-225063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-apc","tag-edo","tag-godwin-obaseki","tag-ui"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225063","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=225063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}