{"id":50549,"date":"2026-04-14T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/benins-romuald-wadagni-wins-presidency-by-landslide-provisional-results-show\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:17:11","slug":"benins-romuald-wadagni-wins-presidency-by-landslide-provisional-results-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/benins-romuald-wadagni-wins-presidency-by-landslide-provisional-results-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin&#8217;s Romuald Wadagni wins presidency by landslide, provisional results show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Wadagni, 49, was the favourite to win after the main opposition party, the Democrats, failed to get its own candidate on to the ballot paper. This left Paul Hounkp\u00e8 as the sole challenger &#8211; he conceded the election earlier on Monday as votes were still being counted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckgwwr1n982o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wadagni, 49, was the favourite to win after the main opposition party, the Democrats, failed to get its own candidate on to the ballot paper. This left Paul Hounkp\u00e8 as the sole challenger &#8211; he conceded the election earlier on Monday as votes were still being counted. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50551,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50549\/revisions\/50551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}