{"id":9816,"date":"2024-09-22T20:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2024-09-22T20:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:44:26","slug":"apcs-monday-okpebholo-declared-winner-of-edo-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/apcs-monday-okpebholo-declared-winner-of-edo-governorship-election\/","title":{"rendered":"APC\u2019s Monday Okpebholo Declared Winner of Edo Governorship Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, has won the Edo State governorship election held on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced on Sunday that Okpebholo secured 291,667 votes across 18 local government areas (LGAs). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His main challenger, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), garnered 247,655 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Olumide Akpata of the Labour Party (LP) placed third with 22,763 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With these results, Okpebholo is set to be officially declared the winner of the election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, has won the Edo State governorship election held on Saturday. The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9816","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\/9816","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=9816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9818,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions\/9818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}