{"id":233757,"date":"2025-08-05T04:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/by-election-inec-releases-names-of-5-candidates-for-ibadan-north-federal-constituency\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:38:26","slug":"by-election-inec-releases-names-of-5-candidates-for-ibadan-north-federal-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/by-election-inec-releases-names-of-5-candidates-for-ibadan-north-federal-constituency\/","title":{"rendered":"By-election: INEC releases names of 5 candidates for Ibadan North Federal Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By-election: INEC releases names of 5 candidates for Ibadan North Federal Constituency<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the names of five candidates contesting the forthcoming bye-election in Ibadan North Federal Constituency, Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>The names were contained in a statement issued by the electoral body and obtained by DAILY POST on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The bye-election is scheduled to hold on Saturday, August 16, following the death of the immediate past occupant of the seat, Hon. Musliudeen Olaide Akinremi.<\/p>\n<p>Akinremi, who was serving a second term under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, died in July last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>INEC had earlier indicated that nineteen political parties signalled interest in contesting the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the commission has now released the final list featuring five candidates representing their respective political parties.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates include Dexter Femi Akin-Alamu of the African Democratic Congress, Adewale Haastrup Olatunji of the All Progressives Congress, and Olabisi Olajumoke Odususi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the list are Fola Sunday Oyekunle of the Peoples Democratic Party and Hammed Badmus of the Zenith Labour Party.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ibadan, INEC,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/08\/04\/by-election-inec-releases-names-of-5-candidates-for-ibadan-north-federal-constituency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By-election: INEC releases names of 5 candidates for Ibadan North Federal Constituency The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has released the names of five candidates contesting the forthcoming bye-election in Ibadan North Federal Constituency, Oyo State. The names were contained in a statement issued by the electoral body and obtained by DAILY POST on Monday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[754,1185],"class_list":["post-233757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ibadan","tag-inec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}