{"id":49422,"date":"2024-09-22T16:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49422"},"modified":"2024-09-22T16:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:45:50","slug":"edo-poll-governor-obaseki-loses-oredo-lga-to-apc-in-fiercely-contested-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/22\/edo-poll-governor-obaseki-loses-oredo-lga-to-apc-in-fiercely-contested-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Poll: Governor Obaseki Loses Oredo LGA to APC in Fiercely Contested Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged victorious in Oredo Local Government Area (LGA) in the Edo State gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Governor Godwin Obaseki. The results from the key local government area show a significant win for the APC, as it secured 30,780 votes, while the PDP trailed with 24,938 votes, and the Labour Party (LP) garnered 5,389 votes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The result in Oredo LGA is particularly notable because it is Governor Obaseki\u2019s home base and a traditional stronghold for the PDP. The APC\u2019s victory in this area underscores the highly competitive nature of the Edo governorship race, which has been marked by a tense battle for control between the PDP and APC, with the Labour Party also attempting to make inroads.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">APC &#8211; 30780<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">LP &#8211; 5389<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">PDP &#8211; 24938<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged victorious in Oredo Local Government Area (LGA) in the Edo State gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Governor Godwin Obaseki. The results from the key local government area show a significant win for the APC, as it secured 30,780 votes, while the PDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49423,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49422\/revisions\/49423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}