{"id":233407,"date":"2026-05-16T04:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-daniel-challenges-abiodun-to-live-debate-over-ogun-east-ticket\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:15:58","slug":"nigeria-2027-daniel-challenges-abiodun-to-live-debate-over-ogun-east-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2027-daniel-challenges-abiodun-to-live-debate-over-ogun-east-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2027 &#8211; Daniel Challenges Abiodun to Live Debate Over Ogun East Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Former governor and senator representing Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel, has challenged Governor Dapo Abiodun to a live television debate over the battle for the Ogun East senatorial ticket ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Daniel threw the challenge during an interview on TVC&#8217;s Beyond The Headlines on Thursday, where he rejected claims that Abiodun had emerged as the consensus candidate for the senatorial seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to the senator, what took place was merely an endorsement and not a consensus, and he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former governor and senator representing Ogun East, Gbenga Daniel, has challenged Governor Dapo Abiodun to a live television debate over the battle for the Ogun East senatorial ticket ahead of the 2027 elections. Daniel threw the challenge during an interview on TVC&#8217;s Beyond The Headlines on Thursday, where he rejected claims that Abiodun had emerged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[32577,258,256,6977,16869,9086,6719,9191,257,4687,393,12407,254,8346],"class_list":["post-233407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abiodun","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-daniel","tag-debate","tag-east","tag-live","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ogun","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ticket"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}