The All Progressives Congress in Surulere Federal Constituency 1 will this morning kick off the process of nominating a replacement for former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Femi Gbajabiamila.<\/p>\n
Gbajabiamila resigned his membership of the 10th House of Representatives on June 14. <\/span><\/p>\n The current Speaker of the House, Rt Hon Tajudeen Abbas, read Gbajabiamila\u2019s letter of resignation during plenary. <\/span><\/p>\n In the letter, Gbajabiamila said his resignation is to enable him to assume the role of Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu.<\/span><\/p>\n Following INEC’s release of the Time Table for the conduct of Re-run and Bye-Election in some federal Constituencies, the Surulere chapter of the APC will conduct a Ward Delegate Congress this morning in preparation for the party’s primary tomorrow, Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n Four Aspirants within APC are jostling to replace Femi Gbajabiamila, including Hon Kabir Lawal, Hon Fuad Laguda, Hon Raheem Owokoniran, and Dr Adebomi Adebayo.<\/span><\/p>\n Some of the centers where the Ward Delegate Congress will hold include Obele Oniwala playing ground, Nathan Primary school, New Era secondary School, and Owolewa Open space in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Labour Party has said that it will conduct a credible primary election to produce a candidate capable of winning the Surulere Federal Constituency I bye-election slated for February 3, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The All Progressives Congress in Surulere Federal Constituency 1 will this morning kick off the process of nominating a replacement for former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Femi Gbajabiamila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,3054,327,7262],"class_list":["post-17377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-femi-gbajabiamila","tag-national-assembly","tag-s-lere-bye-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377"}],"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=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17378,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions\/17378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}