{"id":73117,"date":"2025-08-14T07:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73117"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:51:57","slug":"lp-protests-omission-of-candidate-from-inec-by-election-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/14\/lp-protests-omission-of-candidate-from-inec-by-election-list\/","title":{"rendered":"LP Protests Omission of Candidate from INEC By-Election List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party (LP), has protested the continued absence of its candidate\u2019s name from the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s (INEC), official list for the upcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT), by-election.<\/p>\n<p>FCT LP Chairman, Peter Ugwu, told journalists in Abuja that the party had met all requirements and submitted the necessary documents, yet the candidate\u2019s name was still missing from INEC\u2019s portal.<\/p>\n<p>He said repeated attempts to get clarification from the commission had yielded no results.<\/p>\n<p>Ugwu alleged the omission might be a deliberate attempt to sideline the party, urging INEC to immediately address the matter to ensure fairness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have met all deadlines and provided all documents, yet our candidate\u2019s name is missing. This is unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>INEC, however, assured that the final list of candidates would be updated before the polls and urged political parties to remain patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; The Labour Party (LP), has protested the continued absence of its candidate\u2019s name from the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s (INEC), official list for the upcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT), by-election. FCT LP Chairman, Peter Ugwu, told journalists in Abuja that the party had met all requirements and submitted the necessary documents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73117","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73119,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73117\/revisions\/73119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}