{"id":6260,"date":"2022-01-12T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:57:11","slug":"alao-akala-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6260","title":{"rendered":"Alao-Akala Dies At 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A former governor of Oyo State, Christopher Alao-Akala, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alao-Akala, who was born in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, on June 3, 1950, died at the age of 71.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details of his death remained sketchy as of the time of filing this report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Dr Olatunde Abdluazeez, told our correspondent that \u201cthe news of his death is out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He said, \u201cThe news of his death is out. He did his best for the state. May his soul rest in peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alao-Akala was a former police officer and a former Deputy Governor to Chief Rashidi Ladoja. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He became governor when Ladoja was impeached. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was a candidate of the ADP in the 2019 governorship election in Oyo State before defecting to the APC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former governor of Oyo State, Christopher Alao-Akala, is dead. Alao-Akala, who was born in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, on June 3, 1950, died at the age of 71. Details of his death remained sketchy as of the time of filing this report. But the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3748,111,593,110],"class_list":["post-6260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alao-akala","tag-apc","tag-oyo-state","tag-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260"}],"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=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6262,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions\/6262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}