{"id":51381,"date":"2018-11-15T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=46697"},"modified":"2018-11-15T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T10:23:50","slug":"mimiko-quit-presidential-race-set-to-go-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/mimiko-quit-presidential-race-set-to-go-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimiko quit presidential race, set to go for senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olusegun Mimiko, former governor of Ondo state, has dumped his presidential ambition.<\/p>\n

The two-term governor of Ondo had emerged presidential candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).<\/p>\n

But a source revealed on Wednesday that Mimiko has pulled out of the presidential race and will now contest the Ondo central senatorial election under ZLP.<\/p>\n

Gboye Adegbenro, a former commissioner in his administration, had clinched the senatorial ticket and was listed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as ZLP\u2019s candidate in the election.<\/p>\n

TheCable reports that a source in Mimiko\u2019s camp said that Adegbenro has agreed to cede the ticket to the former governor.<\/p>\n

\u201cOga (Mimiko) is now the senatorial candidate of ZLP. He is not contesting for president again,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdegbenro is his boy, he has already stepped down for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The source added that ZLP has reached an agreement with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cZLP is having an agreement with PDP in the presidential election, so we are no more fielding any candidate,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

Eni Akinsola, spokesman to the former governor, could not be reached for comments as calls put to his line were not answered and the text message was also not replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olusegun Mimiko, former governor of Ondo state, has dumped his presidential ambition. The two-term governor of Ondo had emerged presidential candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP). But a source revealed on Wednesday that Mimiko has pulled out of the presidential race and will now contest the Ondo central senatorial election under ZLP. Gboye Adegbenro, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2284,2285,2159],"class_list":["post-51381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gboye-adegbenro","tag-olusegun-mimiko","tag-zenith-labour-party","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}