{"id":50306,"date":"2018-10-08T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50306"},"modified":"2018-10-08T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:24:34","slug":"apc-primaries-akinade-fijabi-odebunmi-get-return-tickets-to-nass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50306","title":{"rendered":"APC primaries: Akinade-Fijabi, Odebunmi get return tickets to NASS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APC-primaries-Akinade-Fijabi-Odebunmi-get-return-tickets-to-NASS.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The duo of Hon. Saheed Akinade-Fijabi representing Ibadan North West\/ Ibadan South West and Hon. Segun Dokun Odebunmi representing Oyo Oluwa\/ Surulere have won their return tickets to the National Assembly for the third term.<\/p>\n<p>Akinade-Fijabi whose journey to the green chamber started in 2011 defeated his close rival, Mr. Rotimi Ajanaku in a keenly contested primary election held at Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>Akinade-Fijabi scored 299 votes to defeat Ajanaku who pulled 279 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Odebunmi who was elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in 2011 before he later joined the ruling APC in 2017, on the other hand, was adopted as a consensus candidate by delegates from the two local government areas in the constituency at the primary election held in Ajaawa.<\/p>\n<p>The duo are chairmen of committees in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Odebunmi while speaking thanked the state Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress for considering him worthy for the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ticket and subsequent victory at the poll will afford him the opportunity to continue to give adequate representation at the National Assembly as well as empowering the constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Odebunmi, while reiterating his commitment to the progress and victory of APC in 2019, however, expressed optimism that the party will record landslide victory in many states in 2019.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo of Hon. Saheed Akinade-Fijabi representing Ibadan North West\/ Ibadan South West and Hon. Segun Dokun Odebunmi representing Oyo Oluwa\/ Surulere have won their return tickets to the National Assembly for the third term. Akinade-Fijabi whose journey to the green chamber started in 2011 defeated his close rival, Mr. Rotimi Ajanaku in a keenly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50307,"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],"class_list":["post-50306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306","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=50306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}