{"id":77464,"date":"2025-10-25T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77464"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:34:40","slug":"bamidele-backs-oyebanji-for-second-term-urges-continuity-in-ekiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/25\/bamidele-backs-oyebanji-for-second-term-urges-continuity-in-ekiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamidele Backs Oyebanji for Second Term, Urges Continuity in Ekiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele has endorsed Governor Biodun Oyebanji for a second term, urging continuity and political stability ahead of the 2026 Ekiti State governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Ado-Ekiti during a visit to the APC State Executive Committee on Friday, Bamidele said consistent leadership like Lagos has enjoyed since 1999, would sustain development in Ekiti.<\/p>\n<p>He commended Oyebanji\u2019s performance despite the state\u2019s lean resources, saying, \u201cGo around the state and see what has been done. Given the resources available, the governor has done well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bamidele, who returned to vote as a delegate, expressed confidence that the APC primary scheduled for October 27 would be peaceful. With other aspirants disqualified or withdrawn, Oyebanji remains the party\u2019s consensus candidate.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed recent protests against the process as politically motivated and urged party members to unite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next phase is to consolidate our gains and ensure continuity for the sake of Ekiti\u2019s development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele has endorsed Governor Biodun Oyebanji for a second term, urging continuity and political stability ahead of the 2026 Ekiti State governorship election. Speaking in Ado-Ekiti during a visit to the APC State Executive Committee on Friday, Bamidele said consistent leadership like Lagos has enjoyed since 1999, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77464","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77466,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77464\/revisions\/77466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}