{"id":8405,"date":"2022-05-24T19:58:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:54:49","slug":"paper-weight-tj-floors-dino-melaye-to-clinch-pdp-senatorial-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8405","title":{"rendered":"Boastful Dino Melaye Crashes Out Of Senatorial Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The lawmaker representing Kabba\/Bunu Ijumu Federal constituency, Hon. Tajudeen Yusuf, has defeated Senator Dino Melaye to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party senatorial ticket in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yusuf defeated Melaye, who represented Kogi West in the 8th Assembly with 163 votes as against 99 votes polled by Melaye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a rerun election held Tuesday in Kaba, following a tied result of 88 votes apiece for the duo of TJ Yusuf and Dino Melaye after Monday\u2019s delegates election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In Kogi East, former banker, Dr Victor Adoji clinched the ticket to fly the flag of PDP at next February\u2019s general election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As of the time of filing this report, the delegates\u2019 election to Kogi central is yet to be held after some of the aspirants\u2019 picture did not appear on the ballot papers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our correspondent however learnt that officials left Lokoja for Okene at 18.30.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Kabba\/Bunu Ijumu Federal constituency, Hon. Tajudeen Yusuf, has defeated Senator Dino Melaye to clinch the Peoples Democratic Party senatorial ticket in Kogi State. Yusuf defeated Melaye, who represented Kogi West in the 8th Assembly with 163 votes as against 99 votes polled by Melaye. In a rerun election held Tuesday in Kaba, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[515,110,4756],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dino-melaye","tag-pdp","tag-senatorial-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405"}],"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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}