{"id":16561,"date":"2023-11-13T08:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16561"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T08:26:38","slug":"kogi-gov-election-apcs-ododo-defeat-melaye-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16561","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Gov Election: APC\u2019s Ododo Defeat Melaye, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The All Progressives Congress Governorship candidate, Usman Ododo, has been announced winner of the just concluded November 11 governorship election in Kogi State.<\/span><\/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 in Kogi State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,515,8017,8018],"class_list":["post-16561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-dino-melaye","tag-kogi-gov-election","tag-usman-ododo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561"}],"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=16561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16562,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions\/16562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}