{"id":43840,"date":"2024-08-17T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T09:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=43840"},"modified":"2024-08-17T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T09:06:43","slug":"imo-lg-polls-apc-to-hold-primary-elections-on-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/17\/imo-lg-polls-apc-to-hold-primary-elections-on-august-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Imo LG Polls: APC to Hold Primary Elections on August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has scheduled its primary elections for the local government polls in Imo State on August 22, 2024. The announcement was made by the State Chairman, MacDonald Ebere, who confirmed that the party is fully prepared to conduct a free and fair exercise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ebere advised all aspirants to maintain decorum throughout the process, emphasizing that party executive members will serve as automatic delegates in the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There has been a growing call among many party members at the local government and ward levels for all card-carrying members to be included in the voting process. They argue that such inclusivity would promote equity, fairness, and justice during the primaries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The State Organizing Secretary, Ikechukwu Sunday Umeh, urged contestants to engage with their local councils, ensuring the process is conducted in a way that is acceptable to all. He also assured that the party would compensate those who do not secure nominations, highlighting the importance of a successful main election for the APC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has scheduled its primary elections for the local government polls in Imo State on August 22, 2024. The announcement was made by the State Chairman, MacDonald Ebere, who confirmed that the party is fully prepared to conduct a free and fair exercise. &nbsp; Ebere advised all aspirants to maintain decorum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43840","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43843,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43840\/revisions\/43843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}