{"id":239734,"date":"2026-07-28T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-oyo-apc-governorship-candidate-names-campaign-director-general\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:11:22","slug":"nigeria-oyo-apc-governorship-candidate-names-campaign-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-oyo-apc-governorship-candidate-names-campaign-director-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Oyo APC Governorship Candidate Names Campaign Director-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The appointment comes as political parties begin early preparations for the 2027 Oyo governorship election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Sharafadeen Alli, has appointed former Akinyele Local Government Area Chairman, Yemi Aderibigbe, as Director-General (DG) of his campaign council ahead of the 2027 governorship election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The appointment, announced on Tuesday, marks one of the APC&#8217;s earliest major campaign decisions as the party begins to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607280495.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The appointment comes as political parties begin early preparations for the 2027 Oyo governorship election. The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Sharafadeen Alli, has appointed former Akinyele Local Government Area Chairman, Yemi Aderibigbe, as Director-General (DG) of his campaign council ahead of the 2027 governorship election. The appointment, announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11297,4302,7997,6124,23081,8650,257,4687,393,10769,254],"class_list":["post-239734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-campaign","tag-candidate","tag-directorgeneral","tag-governorship","tag-names","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oyo","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239734","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=239734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}