{"id":1297,"date":"2018-06-24T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2018-06-24T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T08:13:54","slug":"melaye-mocks-apc-says-convention-beginning-partys-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Melaye Mocks APC, Says Convention Beginning Of Party&#8217;s Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, on Saturday mocked his party, the All Progressives Congress, describing the national convention of the ruling party as a joke.<\/p>\n<p>According to him in his posts on his Instagram page, the congress is the beginning of the \u201cpolitical obituary\u201d of the party.<\/p>\n<p>He also quoted from a song by the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, making a veiled reference to the APC as a bad party.<\/p>\n<p>The posts read, \u201cHappy to be away from the joke going on in Naija today (Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical obituary of APC activated. Egbekegbe na bad society\u2026beast of no nation\u2026egbekegbe\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melaye had recently relocated his seat from the APC section of the Senate chamber to that of the opposition and minority Peoples Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, on Saturday mocked his party, the All Progressives Congress, describing the national convention of the ruling party as a joke. According to him in his posts on his Instagram page, the congress is the beginning of the \u201cpolitical obituary\u201d of the party. He also quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,515,1072],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-dino-melaye","tag-kogi-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}