{"id":62624,"date":"2018-06-19T02:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T01:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62624"},"modified":"2018-06-19T02:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T01:38:46","slug":"atiku-visits-fayose-canvasses-support-for-pdp-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/atiku-visits-fayose-canvasses-support-for-pdp-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"*Atiku Visits Fayose, Canvasses Support for PDP Candidate*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**As his nationwide consultations gather speed*<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) frontline<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday visited Ekiti State for a<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">strategic review meeting with Governor Ayodele Fayose where he also rallied<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">support for Prof. Kolapo Olusola, the PDP governorship candidate in the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">State in the July 14 Governorship election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">A statement from the office of the Director General, Atiku Presidential<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Campaign Organisation (APCO), Otunba Gbenga Daniel, also disclosed that the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">campaign team will be in Yenogoa,\u00a0 Bayelsa State capital on Tuesday in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">continuation of Atiku&#8217;s nationwide consideration with Governor Seriake<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Dickson and other chieftains of the party in the State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Later, Atiku Abubakar will be in Rivers State on a two-day visit between<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Wednesday and Thursday where the former Vice President is expected to<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">commission some projects executed by Governor Nyesom Wike in the State. The<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">team will also pay courtesy calls on some major stakeholders in the PDP in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Rivers State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The team will thereafter proceed to Lagos and Delta States on Sunday, 24th<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and Tuesday, 26th of June respectively where the presidential hopeful will<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">hold consultative talks with leaders and chieftains of the party in both<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">states.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It will be recalled that Atiku had earlier visited Ekiti, Rivers, Akwa Ibom<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and Cross River States meeting with the respective governors of the States<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">before taking a break to observe the Ramadan fast that took him to Saudi<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Arabia to perform the lesser hajj.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Other PDP states lined up for subsequent visits of the PDP presidential<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">aspirant include Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Gombe and Taraba.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**As his nationwide consultations gather speed* Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) frontline presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday visited Ekiti State for a strategic review meeting with&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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