{"id":19666,"date":"2024-09-22T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19666"},"modified":"2024-09-22T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T20:40:17","slug":"apcs-okpebholo-defeats-ighodalo-akpata-declared-winner-of-edo-guber-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=19666","title":{"rendered":"APC\u2019s Okpebholo Defeats Ighodalo, Akpata, Declared Winner of Edo Guber 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><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19667 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2317-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2317-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2317-1024x675.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2317-768x506.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2317-750x494.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2317.jpeg 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,8951,8956,8966,8965,8269,5269],"class_list":["post-19666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-asue-ighodalo","tag-defeats","tag-edo-guber-election","tag-monday-okpebholo","tag-olumide-akpata","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666"}],"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=19666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19668,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666\/revisions\/19668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}