{"id":57530,"date":"2018-11-01T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=57530"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:19:11","slug":"2019-election-jimi-agbaje-picks-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=57530","title":{"rendered":"2019 election: Jimi Agbaje picks running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jimi-Agbaje-650x400.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has announced Mrs. Haleemat Busari, as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement released on Thursday by the Director of Media and Publicity of the Jimi Agbaje Campaign Organisation, Felix Oboagwina.<\/p>\n<p>Agbaje said he picked Mrs. Busari following comprehensive consultations with leaders and stakeholders within and outside the party.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Busari is a Director on the board of several blue-chip companies. She was a director in Zain Nigeria Ltd (now Airtel Nigeria, a leading telecommunications company) and a serving director in First Bank, Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Oluwayemisi Haleemat Busari came highly recommended and widely endorsed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStakeholders all agree that without any iota of a doubt, the Jimi-Haleemat combination is a winning ticket on every count.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Busari will be bringing to the joint ticket her versatility and connections as a professional in corporate governance, as a Muslim activist and as a bonafide daughter of native Lagos,\u201d the statement said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has announced Mrs. Haleemat Busari, as his running mate. This was disclosed in a statement released on Thursday by the Director of Media and Publicity of the Jimi Agbaje Campaign Organisation, Felix Oboagwina. Agbaje said he picked Mrs. Busari following comprehensive consultations with leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10702,"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":[4924,7125],"class_list":["post-57530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-jimi-agbaje","tag-lagos-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57530","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=57530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}