{"id":4163,"date":"2023-11-13T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T08:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T08:21:06","slug":"apcs-ododo-wins-kogi-guber-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/apcs-ododo-wins-kogi-guber-election\/","title":{"rendered":"APC\u2019s Ododo wins Kogi guber election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The All Progressives Congress Governorship candidate, Usman Ododo, has been announced winner of the just concluded November 11 governorship election in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ododo won with 446,237 votes, defeating his closest rival, Murtala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party, who garnered 259,052, while Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party pulled 46,362 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is despite INEC announcing that fresh polls will be conducted in some polling units in the Ogori\/Magongo Local Government Area of the state on November 18, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Returning Officer for the Kogi State governorship election, Prof Johnson Urama disclosed this on Sunday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAhmed Ododo of APC, having certified by the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,\u201d said Urama.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress Governorship candidate, Usman Ododo, has been announced winner of the just concluded November 11 governorship election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","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=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}