{"id":21690,"date":"2026-04-27T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=21690"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:09:25","slug":"breaking-news-sanwo-olu-cabinet-back-hamzat-as-apcs-preferred-candidate-for-2027-lagos-governorship-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/breaking-news-sanwo-olu-cabinet-back-hamzat-as-apcs-preferred-candidate-for-2027-lagos-governorship-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Sanwo-Olu, Cabinet Back Hamzat as APC\u2019s Preferred Candidate for 2027 Lagos Governorship Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Taiwo Olapade<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, alongside his cabinet, has endorsed his deputy, Kadri Hamzat, as the preferred candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress for the 2027 gubernatorial election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement was announced by the governor at the State House in Marina when Dr. Hamzat led a delegation of party members, including the Governance Advisory Council, former ministers, and lawmakers, to inform him of his intention to succeed him in office.<\/p>\n<p>More details soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taiwo Olapade Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, alongside his cabinet, has endorsed his deputy, Kadri Hamzat, as the preferred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21693,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions\/21693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}