{"id":18722,"date":"2024-02-24T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T08:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ondo-guber-i-cant-be-governor-for-one-year-aiyedatiwa-on-plans-to-run\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T08:02:37","slug":"ondo-guber-i-cant-be-governor-for-one-year-aiyedatiwa-on-plans-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ondo-guber-i-cant-be-governor-for-one-year-aiyedatiwa-on-plans-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Ondo Guber: I can\u2019t be governor for one year \u2013 Aiyedatiwa on plans to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has declared that he would be contesting for the state\u2019s top job in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>Aiyedatiwa stated this on Friday while featuring on TVC news shortly after the remains of his immediate predecessor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu was interred.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Mr Aiyedatiwa was on December 27, 2023 sworn in as governor of the state following the passing of Akeredolu who died after a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of the former governor was interred at his country home in Owo, in the Owo council area of the state on Friday amidst tears.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the burial, Aiyedatiwa said he would be running for the November 16 governorship polls, saying nobody wants to be governor for one year.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI will be running. I\u2019m already a sitting governor and let me say this, nobody wants to be governor for one year. Give me what the constitution allows me to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least, let me also have the chance of running for one more time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ondo Guber: I can\u2019t be governor for one year \u2013 Aiyedatiwa on plans to run<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has declared that he would be contesting for the state\u2019s top job in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5032,15,1803,3],"tags":[5033,180,1806,249],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aiyedatiwa","category-news","category-ondo","category-politics","tag-aiyedatiwa","tag-news","tag-ondo","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}