{"id":50010,"date":"2024-09-21T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T08:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/edo-guber-okpebholo-remains-our-candidate-apc\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T08:04:36","slug":"edo-guber-okpebholo-remains-our-candidate-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/edo-guber-okpebholo-remains-our-candidate-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo guber: Okpebholo remains our candidate \u2013 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reiterated that Monday Okpebholo remains its governorship candidate in Edo State governorship election scheduled for Saturday (today).<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, made this clarification in a statement issued in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Morka said the clarification became necessary following fake news that Okpebholo had been disqualified by a magistrate court.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the magistrate court that purportedly issued the fake ruling had issued a disclaimer, stating categorically that it did not emanate from it.<\/p>\n<p>The Publicity Secretary further said that the fake ruling meant to sow seeds of doubt about the APC candidate was a blatant and calculated attempt to subvert the will of the Edo electorate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the final hours to the Edo gubernatorial election scheduled to hold Saturday, September 21, 2024, certain political parties have desperately resorted to forgery and disinformation on our candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blackmail is to the extent of circulating a fake magistrate court ruling purportedly disqualifying Sen.Okpebholo, the APC gubernatorial candidate in the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circulated ruling is fake, a fabrication and an act of pure desperation in the face of their imminent defeat at the polls,\u201d Morka said.<\/p>\n<p>Edo guber: Okpebholo remains our candidate \u2013 APC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reiterated that Monday Okpebholo remains its governorship candidate in Edo State governorship election scheduled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4242,4709,15,11005,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apc","category-edo-guber","category-news","category-okpebholo","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50010","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=50010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}