{"id":6067,"date":"2022-04-20T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2022-04-19T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:48:08","slug":"2023-drama-as-ibadan-muslim-cleric-joins-presidential-race-dares-tinubu-osinbajo-others-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/2023-drama-as-ibadan-muslim-cleric-joins-presidential-race-dares-tinubu-osinbajo-others-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Drama As Ibadan Muslim Cleric Joins Presidential Race, Dares Tinubu, Osinbajo, Others [PHOTOS]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 40-year-old Ibadan-based Muslim cleric has declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olasupo Afeez Akinola has vowed to succeed Buhari under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Declaring his intentions in Ibadan on Monday, Olasupo claimed that God directed him to contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He brought forward that Nigerians are in abject poverty, necessitating the emergence of a god-fearing leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1261\" src=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220419_122827-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220419_122827-1-scaled-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220419_122827-1-scaled-1-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220419_122827-1-scaled-1-624x1024.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220419_122827-1-scaled-1-256x420.jpg 256w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220419_122827-1-scaled-1-640x1051.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/20220419_122827-1-scaled-1-681x1118.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with this announcement, the Ibadan Cleric will be gunning for the APC ticket towards presidential hopefuls including former Lagos Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Ebonyi Governor Dave Umahi; Senator Rochas Okorocha; Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello and Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi, who have additionally declared their intentions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old Ibadan-based Muslim cleric has declared his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election. Olasupo Afeez Akinola has vowed to succeed Buhari under the &#8230; <a title=\"2023: Drama As Ibadan Muslim Cleric Joins Presidential Race, Dares Tinubu, Osinbajo, Others [PHOTOS]\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/2023-drama-as-ibadan-muslim-cleric-joins-presidential-race-dares-tinubu-osinbajo-others-photos\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2023: Drama As Ibadan Muslim Cleric Joins Presidential Race, Dares Tinubu, Osinbajo, Others [PHOTOS]\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[962,21],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2023-election","tag-ipad","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}