{"id":9400,"date":"2022-07-06T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:17:30","slug":"lagos-2023-funke-akindele-emerges-as-lagos-pdp-deputy-gov-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9400","title":{"rendered":"Lagos 2023: Funke Akindele Emerges Lagos PDP Deputy Gov Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, popularly known and called \u2018Jenifa\u2019 is the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegazellenews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thegazellenews.com<\/a>\u00a0can exclusively revealed.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9401\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/8469F333-FCC3-433B-9E2D-3F55E1D7C5DB-300x257.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/8469F333-FCC3-433B-9E2D-3F55E1D7C5DB-300x257.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/8469F333-FCC3-433B-9E2D-3F55E1D7C5DB-1024x877.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/8469F333-FCC3-433B-9E2D-3F55E1D7C5DB-768x657.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/8469F333-FCC3-433B-9E2D-3F55E1D7C5DB-750x642.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/8469F333-FCC3-433B-9E2D-3F55E1D7C5DB.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This medium confirmed exclusively from multiple sources close to the party\u2019s Governorship Candidate in the state, Dr Abdul Azeez Olajide Adediran aka Jandor and leadership of the party in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gazellenews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gazellenews.com<\/a>\u00a0learnt further that the official presentation of Akindele would be made public very soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our correspondent learnt that four major reasons were responsible for her choice as for the covered position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cShe is from Ikorodu and Lagos East Senatorial District like the incumbent Deputy Governor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cShe is also from the royal family in the town,\u201d sources told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegazellenews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thegazellenews.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This medium learnt further that Funke Akindele\u2019s mother is the immediate younger sister of the current Ayangbunren of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty Kabiru Shotobi. \u201cHer mother is the immediate younger sister of the monarch, same parents,\u201d our sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Funke was also picked because of her gender as well as her youth. \u201cShe\u2019s a female, and she is very young. We\u2019re both gender and youth sensitive in our party,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegazellenews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thegazellenews.com<\/a>\u00a0was told.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finally, her popularity among her colleagues in the movie industry was also an added advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, popularly known and called \u2018Jenifa\u2019 is the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State,\u00a0thegazellenews.com\u00a0can exclusively revealed. This medium confirmed exclusively from multiple sources close to the party\u2019s Governorship Candidate in the state, Dr Abdul Azeez Olajide Adediran aka Jandor and leadership of the party in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5385,4093,3203,1304],"class_list":["post-9400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-deputy-gov-candidate","tag-funke-akindele","tag-lagos-2023","tag-lagos-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400"}],"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=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9405,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions\/9405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}