{"id":51325,"date":"2024-10-09T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=51325"},"modified":"2024-10-09T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:27:48","slug":"heavy-security-presence-jos-on-high-alert-as-plateau-local-government-elections-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/09\/heavy-security-presence-jos-on-high-alert-as-plateau-local-government-elections-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Security Presence: Jos on High Alert as Plateau Local Government Elections Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plateau State holds elections across the 17 local council areas, as security personnel are seen heavily present in Jos, Security operatives, including the military, police and NSCDC, were stationed in strategic locations.<\/p>\n<p>Security personnel, also were stationed at the various polling units to ensure hitch-free voting.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the \u00a0police command restricted movements across the entire state to give way for a smooth exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Alabo, the Police spokesman said the command had deployed adequate personnel to all the LGAs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe have made adequate arrangements towards ensuring that the election is peaceful. We have deployed our officers and men to all the 17 LGAs and some flashpoints within the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far everywhere is peaceful, and it is our hope that Plateau residents will cooperate with the security agencies towards a violent-free poll,\u201d Mr Alabo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plateau State holds elections across the 17 local council areas, as security personnel are seen heavily present in Jos, Security operatives, including the military, police and NSCDC, were stationed in strategic locations. Security personnel, also were stationed at the various polling units to ensure hitch-free voting. Earlier, the \u00a0police command restricted movements across the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":51326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[646,1568],"class_list":["post-51325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jos","tag-plateau-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51325","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51329,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51325\/revisions\/51329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}