{"id":19014,"date":"2022-06-08T23:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/?p=19014"},"modified":"2022-06-08T23:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:57:32","slug":"i-didnt-expect-to-win-apc-primary-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/i-didnt-expect-to-win-apc-primary-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t Expect to Win APC Primary&#8212;Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Wednesday that he did not \u2018expect to win\u2019 the party\u2019s presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu also said he holds \u2018no grudges\u2019 against members of his party who worked against his candidature.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tinubu, in his victory speech after the APC presidential primary in Abuja, also thanked all the seven aspirants who stepped down for him during the primary.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu defeated 13 other aspirants to win the primary. He secured 1,271 votes of APC delegates to emerge as the party\u2019s flag bearer. His closest challenger, ex-minister Rotimi Amaechi scored 316 votes. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo came third in the primary with 235 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Wednesday that he did not \u2018expect to win\u2019 the party\u2019s presidential primary. Tinubu also said he holds \u2018no grudges\u2019 against members of his party who worked against his candidature. Mr Tinubu, in his victory speech after the APC presidential primary in Abuja, also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001015,"featured_media":19015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-19014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-politics","tag-chief-olusegun-obasanjo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I didn\u2019t Expect to Win APC Primary-Tinubu - GongNews<\/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:\/\/gongnews.net\/i-didnt-expect-to-win-apc-primary-tinubu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I didn\u2019t Expect to Win APC Primary-Tinubu - GongNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said on Wednesday that he did not \u2018expect to win\u2019 the party\u2019s presidential primary. 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