{"id":71739,"date":"2025-07-30T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71739"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:45:50","slug":"basiec-chairman-ahmed-hardawa-dies-after-brief-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/30\/basiec-chairman-ahmed-hardawa-dies-after-brief-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"BASIEC Chairman Ahmed Hardawa Dies After Brief Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Bauchi State Independent Electoral Commission (BASIEC), Ahmed Hardawa, has died in Abuja after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>Hardawa, who passed away on Tuesday, July 29, had just concluded his final assignment \u2014 overseeing the May 24 by-election for Chairman and Deputy Chairman in Shira Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, described his death as a great loss. In a condolence message through his media aide, Mukhtar Gidado, the governor called Hardawa a \u201cdistinguished statesman\u201d and a \u201cpatriotic Nigerian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that as BASIEC chairman, Hardawa was committed to grassroots democracy and transparent elections, earning him respect across the political space. The governor extended his sympathy to the deceased\u2019s family, the people of Bauchi, and the electoral commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Chairman of the Bauchi State Independent Electoral Commission (BASIEC), Ahmed Hardawa, has died in Abuja after a brief illness. Hardawa, who passed away on Tuesday, July 29, had just concluded his final assignment \u2014 overseeing the May 24 by-election for Chairman and Deputy Chairman in Shira Local Government Area. Bauchi State Governor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":71740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71739","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\/71739","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71741,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71739\/revisions\/71741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}