{"id":39180,"date":"2024-07-17T09:14:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T09:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=39180"},"modified":"2024-07-17T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T09:14:49","slug":"lg-polls-scheduled-for-october-19-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/17\/lg-polls-scheduled-for-october-19-in-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Polls Scheduled for October 19 in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KAD-SIECOM) has scheduled the local government elections in the state for October 19, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The commission\u2019s chairwoman, Hajara Mohammed, announced the date at a Tuesday meeting with political parties and other concerned individuals in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mohammed said the current council members were sworn into office on\u00a0 November 1, 2021, and would end their three-year tenure on October 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201dKAD-SIECOM is responsible for organising the elections of chairpersons, vice-chairpersons, and councillors in the state. In consonance with the provision of section 25(1) of the KAD-SIECOM Law 2024, the general public is hereby informed that the LGA council election will be held in Kaduna on Saturday, 19th October 2024, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe commission issued the election timetable today, Tuesday 16th July 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mohammed further said the 2024 election guidelines had been released with the election timetable.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mohammed assured concerned parties that the electoral commission was ready to conduct the polls on the set date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KAD-SIECOM) has scheduled the local government elections in the state for October 19, 2024. The commission\u2019s chairwoman, Hajara Mohammed, announced the date at a Tuesday meeting with political parties and other concerned individuals in Kaduna. Ms Mohammed said the current council members were sworn into office on\u00a0 November 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":39181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39185,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions\/39185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}