{"id":50514,"date":"2024-10-02T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=50514"},"modified":"2024-10-02T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:21:18","slug":"edo-guber-kdi-raises-concern-over-widespread-vote-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/02\/edo-guber-kdi-raises-concern-over-widespread-vote-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Guber: KDI Raises Concern Over Widespread Vote Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bukola Idowu, Executive Director of Kimpact Development Initiative, expressed concern over widespread vote buying during the Edo State governorship elections. Idowu noted that voter inducements ranged from \u20a61,000 to \u20a610,000 and material incentives, undermining the election&#8217;s credibility. Despite this, she commended the peaceful nature of the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Idowu stated that the election showcased a mix of commendable and alarming aspects. While praising the relative peace and security professionalism, she noted a few incidents of violence and disruption. Technical issues caused most malfunctioning BVAS machines, and ad-hoc officers lacked password details.<\/p>\n<p>The KDI&#8217;s post-election report contains a detailed assessment of the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bukola Idowu, Executive Director of Kimpact Development Initiative, expressed concern over widespread vote buying during the Edo State governorship elections. Idowu noted that voter inducements ranged from \u20a61,000 to \u20a610,000 and material incentives, undermining the election&#8217;s credibility. Despite this, she commended the peaceful nature of the exercise. Idowu stated that the election showcased a mix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":50516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[759],"class_list":["post-50514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-edo-guber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50514","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=50514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50517,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50514\/revisions\/50517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}