{"id":73237,"date":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73237"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","slug":"ensure-fairness-in-saturdays-by-elections-mark-urges-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/14\/ensure-fairness-in-saturdays-by-elections-mark-urges-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensure Fairness in Saturday\u2019s By-elections, Mark Urges INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), David Mark, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to maintain complete impartiality and transparency in Saturday\u2019s by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, the former Senate President said the polls offer INEC an opportunity to rebuild public trust in Nigeria\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>The ADC is fielding candidates for senatorial, House of Representatives, and State House of Assembly seats in ten states.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the ADC as a \u201cchild of necessity\u201d offering Nigerians a fresh path to good governance, Mark appealed to voters to give the party a chance to prove its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded INEC that all eyes are on the commission to correct past errors and restore its credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Mark also called on security agencies to ensure a level playing field, free from intimidation or interference.<\/p>\n<p>Commending ADC candidates for their courage, he urged them to comply fully with electoral laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), David Mark, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to maintain complete impartiality and transparency in Saturday\u2019s by-elections. In a statement on Thursday, the former Senate President said the polls offer INEC an opportunity to rebuild public trust in Nigeria\u2019s electoral process. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73237","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=73237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73239,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73237\/revisions\/73239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}