{"id":26614,"date":"2026-05-20T07:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=26614"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:11:10","slug":"hours-before-primary-begins-toyin-balogun-steps-down-for-adeyinka-oyediran-in-kosofe-assembly-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=26614","title":{"rendered":"Hours Before Primary Begins, Toyin Balogun Steps Down for Adeyinka Oyediran in Kosofe Assembly Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major aspirant for the Kosofe State Constituency II in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Toyin Wasiu Balogun has stepped down from the race, reports thegazellenews.com<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26618 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16a622a2-0f1e-4aa5-8266-7074fd7bc538-213x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16a622a2-0f1e-4aa5-8266-7074fd7bc538-213x300.jpeg 213w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16a622a2-0f1e-4aa5-8266-7074fd7bc538-728x1024.jpeg 728w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16a622a2-0f1e-4aa5-8266-7074fd7bc538-768x1080.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16a622a2-0f1e-4aa5-8266-7074fd7bc538-750x1055.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16a622a2-0f1e-4aa5-8266-7074fd7bc538.jpeg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><br \/>\nThegazellenews.com reports further that Balogun stepped down late Tuesday, 19 May, 2026, directing his supporters to support and vote for another aspirant, Omooba Adeyinka Oyediran in the primary election fixed for Wednesday, 20 May, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This medium learnt that Balogun was one of the leading contenders for the race to represent Kosofe State Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly on the platform of APC.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Balogun announced his withdrawal saying he believed in the ability of Oyediran to represent the constituency well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major aspirant for the Kosofe State Constituency II in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Toyin Wasiu Balogun has stepped down from the race, reports thegazellenews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11607,111,11608,11592,11606],"class_list":["post-26614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adeyinka-oyediran","tag-apc","tag-assembly-race","tag-kosofe","tag-toyin-balogun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26614"}],"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=26614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26619,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26614\/revisions\/26619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}