{"id":17233,"date":"2023-12-27T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T21:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17233"},"modified":"2023-12-27T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T21:51:46","slug":"aiyedatiwa-sworn-in-as-ondo-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17233","title":{"rendered":"Aiyedatiwa Sworn In As Ondo Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been sworn in as the substantive governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Aiyedatiwa was sworn in on Wednesday at the government house, Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital, after the death of Rotimi Akeredolu, the governor of Ondo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In his acceptance speech, Aiyedatiwa asked the \u201cpeople of Ondo State to continue to remember us in their prayers as we continue to emplace good governance in our dear State\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Akeredolu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/just-in-rotimi-akeredolu-ondo-governor-dies-at-67\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s1\">died<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday morning at the age of 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Before his death, the Ondo governor had been away from the state since June for medical treatment and returned on September 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">On December 12, Richard Olatunde, chief press secretary to the late governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/breaking-akeredolu-embarks-on-medical-leave-hands-over-to-deputy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s1\">announced<\/span><\/a> that his principal\u00a0would embark on a medical leave on Wednesday, December 13 as a follow-up to his treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Olatunde said in a statement that \u201d a formal letter regarding the medical leave and a notice formally transferring power in line with the Nigerian Constitution will be transmitted to the House of Assembly\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been sworn in as the substantive governor of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8263,8265,8264],"class_list":["post-17233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-lucky-aiyedatiwa","tag-ondo-governor","tag-sworn-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233"}],"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=17233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17235,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233\/revisions\/17235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}