{"id":267651,"date":"2020-10-09T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=267651"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:40:13","slug":"ondo-election-adc-sacks-officials-for-endorsing-akeredolu-jegede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=267651","title":{"rendered":"Ondo election: ADC sacks officials for endorsing Akeredolu, Jegede"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has run into murky waters in Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the party sanctioned its state officials that endorsed candidates of other political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them either declared support for Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) or Eyitayo Jegede, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer.<\/p>\n<p>ADC Vice Chairman, Peter Edeh, at the party\u2019s grand finale rally in Akure, said the members have been suspended for being anti-party.<\/p>\n<p>He named Ibrahim Rasheed as new acting Chairman and Timothy Akinola as acting Secretary in Ondo.<\/p>\n<p>National Chairman, Ralphs Nwosu, represented by Ibrahim Suleiman, described the party\u2019s candidate, Dapo Adelegan, as the most credible politician.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Adelegan said he was confident of victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has run into murky waters in Ondo State. On Thursday, the party sanctioned its state officials that endorsed candidates of other political parties. Some of them either declared support for Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) or Eyitayo Jegede, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer. ADC Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267652,"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":[29,1541,58,15776],"class_list":["post-267651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-apc","tag-ondo","tag-pdp","tag-rotimi-akeredulu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267651","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=267651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}