The Independent National Electoral Commission has reported the kidnap of one of its officials in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued on Friday, Wilfred Ifogah, head of INEC voters\u2019 registration in the state, said the electoral official was kidnapped while waiting to board a boat at the jetty.<\/p>\n
In a statement on its verified X account on Friday night, Wilfred Ifogah, the head of INEC voters\u2019 registration in the state, said the kinap took place as the official was waiting to board a boat at the jetty.<\/p>\n
He also revealed that a boat carrying election personnel and materials to southern Ijaw LGA has capsized and result sheets were lost during the incident.<\/p>\n
We wish to confirm that a boat carrying election personnel to registration area 17 (Koluama) in southern Ijaw LGA capsized,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThankfully no life was lost as all the election personnel numbering 12 and the boat operator were rescued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Independent National Electoral Commission has reported the kidnap of one of its officials in the Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. In a statement issued on Friday, Wilfred Ifogah, head of INEC voters\u2019 registration in the state, said the electoral official was kidnapped while waiting to board a boat at the jetty. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inec"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}