{"id":133154,"date":"2021-02-13T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=133154"},"modified":"2021-02-13T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:00:08","slug":"ambode-revalidates-apc-membership-first-public-appearance-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/ambode-revalidates-apc-membership-first-public-appearance-since-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambode revalidates APC membership, first public appearance since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of Lagos state, has revalidated his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Ambode participated in the APC revalidation exercise at the Epe ward of Lagos state, on Saturday. This is the former governor\u2019s first public appearance since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ambode was denied the APC\u2019s governorship ticket for reelection in 2018, losing out to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who later won the March 2019 governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the decision of the party stakeholders to give the 2019 governorship ticket to Sanwo-Olu \u2014 instead of an automatic ticket for Ambode to serve a second term \u2014 did not go down well with the former governor.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, later conceded defeat and congratulated Sanwo-Olu on winning the election.<\/p>\n<p>Since handing over to Sanwo-Olu as the governor of Lagos state on May 28, 2019, Ambode has not been seen publicly participating in the party\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p>However, he reemerged on Saturday when he stormed the Epe ward A to revalidate his membership of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Since the return of democracy in 1999, Ambode is the first governor of Lagos state, so far, to serve only one term in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of Lagos state, has revalidated his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 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Ambode was denied the APC\u2019s governorship ticket for reelection in 2018, losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":133155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,15,2,4],"tags":[9212,32],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ambode revalidates APC membership, first public appearance since 2019 | New Mail Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/ambode-revalidates-apc-membership-first-public-appearance-since-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ambode revalidates APC membership, first public appearance since 2019 | New Mail Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of Lagos state, has revalidated his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 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