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<\/p>\nThe minister, who described the attack as unfortunate, said the party will work with relevant agencies to ensure free, fair and credible election on Saturday with adequate security before, during and after the election.<\/p>\n
Said the minister: \u201cYou can see from the enthusiasm and the vibrancy of this crowd. Some governorship rallies cannot match what we have here today.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo cause for alarm because security is guaranteed, we are aware of an attack on our candidate during his tour of constituency.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis shows the opposition\u2019s desperate attempt but I challenge them to try it again,\u201d Muhammed said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Chairman of the party in the state, Bashir Bolarinwa, said APC is very much prepared for the election.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur preparations can be attested to by the crowd here today. In our own case, we have not imported anybody, what we have here today are the real electorate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have done all we have to do and we have put in place all necessary apparatus to win the election and we are sure that come Saturday, we are winning \u201d Bolarinwa said.<\/p>\n
Olawuyi said he is 80 percent sure of victory at the Saturday bye-election.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Thursday condemned attack on Abdulraheem Olawuyi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate for this Saturday\u2019s bye-election for Irepodun\/Ekiti\/Isin and Oke-Ero federal constituency in Kwara. The minister, who described the attack as unfortunate, said the party will work with relevant agencies to ensure free, fair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8887,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,1893,5973],"class_list":["post-61855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-kwara","tag-lai-muhammad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61855","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=61855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}