{"id":47672,"date":"2018-09-30T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=47672"},"modified":"2018-09-30T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T08:25:43","slug":"real-reason-lagos-apc-governorship-primary-was-postponed-until-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=47672","title":{"rendered":"Real reason Lagos APC governorship primary was postponed until Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/APC.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesperson in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, has said the governorship primaries was postponed until Monday because people have to go to church on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have to be in church on Sunday, so we have rescheduled until Monday unfailingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are other issues around logistics, but everything would be done by Monday,\u201d Igbokwe told Premium Times.<\/p>\n<p>The APC on Saturday postponed the governorship primaries for Lagos and Imo States.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid stiff contest for the ruling party\u2019s governor ticket between incumbent Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and Jide Sanwo-Olu.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu reportedly received the endorsement of 36 out of the state\u2019s 40 lawmakers on Sunday afternoon, while another governorship aspirant and challenger, Babatunde Hamzat, stepped down for him.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesperson in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, has said the governorship primaries was postponed until Monday because people have to go to church on Sunday. \u201cPeople have to be in church on Sunday, so we have rescheduled until Monday unfailingly. \u201cThere are other issues around logistics, but everything would be done by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39408,"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":[29,250],"class_list":["post-47672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47672","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=47672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}