{"id":52461,"date":"2024-10-17T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=52461"},"modified":"2024-10-17T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:54:41","slug":"pro-fubara-lawmakers-condemn-inecs-delay-in-filling-vacant-assembly-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/17\/pro-fubara-lawmakers-condemn-inecs-delay-in-filling-vacant-assembly-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Fubara Lawmakers Condemn INEC&#8217;s Delay in Filling Vacant Assembly Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Victor Oko-Jumbo, accuses the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of delaying by-elections for 25 allegedly vacant seats. Oko-Jumbo claims these seats were vacated by lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The defection of Martin Chike Amaewhule and 24 others was headline news and widely reported,&#8221; Oko-Jumbo stated. &#8220;Their seats were declared vacant on December 13, 2023, and INEC must conduct bye-elections to fill them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amaewhule&#8217;s group, loyal to Minister Nyesom Wike, declared four pro-Fubara lawmakers&#8217; seats vacant, seeking by-elections. Oko-Jumbo insists Amaewhule&#8217;s seat and 24 others must be filled first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Truth and facts are constant&#8230; The fact of their defection cannot be erased,&#8221; Oko-Jumbo emphasized. &#8220;I call on INEC to immediately conduct bye-elections to fill the legislative seats declared vacant on December 13, 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Victor Oko-Jumbo, accuses the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of delaying by-elections for 25 allegedly vacant seats. Oko-Jumbo claims these seats were vacated by lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. &#8220;The defection of Martin Chike Amaewhule and 24 others was headline news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":52462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-52461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-inec"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52461","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52485,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52461\/revisions\/52485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}