{"id":50708,"date":"2024-10-03T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=50708"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T10:02:15","slug":"lg-polls-governor-alia-declares-friday-work-free-day-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/03\/lg-polls-governor-alia-declares-friday-work-free-day-in-benue\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Polls: Governor Alia Declares Friday Work-free Day in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Ahead of the October 5 local government election in Benue, Governor Hyacinth Alia declared Friday, October 4, a work-free day.<\/p>\n<p>Alia made the declaration in a statement by his chief press secretary, Tersoo Kula, in Makurdi on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said that the work-free day would allow the electorate to travel to their respective local government areas to exercise their franchise.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised the importance of active participation in the electoral process and encouraged all citizens to take advantage of this work-free day to exercise their civic duty.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Alia expressed confidence that the elections would be conducted smoothly and fairly with the right commitment and participation.<\/p>\n<p>The governor further urged all public and private sector organisations to support the initiative by allowing their employees to do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>He charged the citizens to prioritise peaceful conduct and collaboration during the elections, reinforcing the need for unity and cooperation among all parties involved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"adredux after-para-one aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"adbox\">\n<div class=\"JC-WIDGET-DMROOT\" data-widget-id=\"ca69f5950aba1bbefee2c18f61cc5289\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"v-gazettengr-0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div id=\"_vdo_ads_player_ai_25112\" class=\"vdo_video_unit vdo_content\">\n<div id=\"vdo_logo_parent\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the October 5 local government election in Benue, Governor Hyacinth Alia declared Friday, October 4, a work-free day. Alia made the declaration in a statement by his chief press secretary, Tersoo Kula, in Makurdi on Thursday. The governor said that the work-free day would allow the electorate to travel to their respective local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":50709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50708","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50711,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50708\/revisions\/50711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}